THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

OSCAR WILDE Translated From ENGLISH to MARATHI By V.S THAKAR

Jan 2021 · MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE

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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY IS OSCAR WILDES CLASSIC STORY OF A YOUNG MAN WHOSE BEAUTY PROMPTS A PAINTER TO PAINT A LIFE-LIKE PORTRAIT OF HIM. HOWEVER, ALL IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS...DORIAN EXPRESSES THE DESIRE TO SELL HIS SOUL, TO ENSURE THAT THE PICTURE, RATHER THAN HE, WILL AGE ANDFADE. A MUST-READ FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ALIKE! THE NOVEL IS A SOCIAL SATIRE AS WELL AS A KEY EXPLORER OF VICTORIAN NORMS. WE ARE MADE TO OBSERVE HUMAN EMOTIONS LIKE LOVE, JEALOUSY, HATE AND THE FORCES OF EVIL AND GOOD. OSCAR WILDE PROPAGATES HIS ART FOR ARTS SAKE THEORY, EVEN AS HE WEAVES A NARRATIVE AROUND A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG MAN (DORIAN GRAY) AND HIS FRIENDS (LORD HENRY AND BASIL).THE BOOK IS A CLASSIC IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD, AS IT APPEALS TO THE UNIVERSAL INSTINCTS OF MAN. डोरियन ग्रे...अंतर्बाह्य सुंदर असलेला विशीचा तरुण... बेसिल या चित्रकाराने डोरियनचं चित्र रेखाटलंय... डोरियन, बेसिलचा मित्र लॉर्ड हेन्रीच्या ‘प्रभावा’खाली येतो...डोरियनची प्रेयसी आत्महत्या करते त्याच्याकडून झालेल्या अपेक्षाभंगामुळे...त्यानंतर व्यसनं, स्त्रिया, वाईट कृत्यांत गुंतलेला डोरियन बेसिलचाही खून करतो...त्याच्या या आत्मिक अधोगतीचे पडसाद त्याच्या चित्रावर उमटतात...त्याचा चित्रातला चेहरा विद्रूप होतो...मनोवास्तवाचं प्रभावी चित्रण

About the author

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalene College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent.

He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.

ऑस्कर वाईल्ड हे आयरिश कवी आणि नाटककार होते. १८८०पर्यंत वेगवेगळ्या प्रकारचं लेखन केल्यानंतर, १८९०च्या आसपास लंडनमधील लोकप्रिय नाटककार म्हणून त्यांची ख्याती झाली. त्यांची सुभाषितं, नाटकं आणि ‘द पिक्चर ऑफ डोरियन ग्रे’ ही कादंबरी, ही त्यांची खास ओळख होती. चमकदार पोशाख, परखड वक्तव्य आणि संभाषणकौशल्यामुळे त्यांनी पत्रकारिताही गाजवली. The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) हे दीर्घ काव्य त्यांनी लिहिलं. 

He worked as a Professor of Mathematics for a few years after completing his Masters in Mathematics. Later, He worked in CW&PRS at Pune. After retiring from CW&PRS, he worked on Marathi translations of ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Dr. Stephen Hawking, and also ‘Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. Later, he tirelessly worked for Marathi –Marathi –English thesaurus (Paryaykosh in Marathi). He was keenly interested in study of literature, arts and classical music. 

पुण्याच्या फर्ग्युसन महाविद्यालयातून गणित या विषयात एम. एस्सी.. त्यानंतर काही काळ प्राध्यापकी. त्यानंतर पुणे येथील CWPRS या सरकारी संस्थेत नोकरी. निवृत्तीनंतर डॉ. स्टिफन हॉकिंग यांच्या ‘द ब्रिफ हिस्टरी ऑफ टाइम’ या पुस्तकाचा मराठीत अनुवाद ‘काळाचा छोटासा इतिहास’, तसेच ‘पिक्चर ऑफ डोरियन ग्रे’ चा मराठी अनुवाद. ‘मराठी- मराठी- इंग्रजी’ असा थेसोरस किंवा पर्याय शब्दकोश तयार केला. ‘विज्ञान आणि अध्यात्म - एक मुळापासून दृष्टिक्षेप' हे त्यांचे स्वतंत्र पुस्तक