Discussão:Teleny, ou O Reverso da Medalha

Teleny, or The Reverse Side of the Medal, was first published in 1883 in a very limited edition of 200 books, written at least partially, according to specialists, by Oscar Wilde. Teleny is the story of the hot (more than hot, even more than erotic… Teleny has strong and vivid, but at the same time somehow poetic and romantic, descriptions of sex scenes) and obsessive passion of Camille de Grieux by René de Teleny in the very closed fin de siécle social life of Paris: a pessimistic and, in the end, sad story of one more hidden “love that dare not speak it’s name.” Slightly different in style from chapter to chapter, with a storyline that is sometimes puzzling (probably because it was written by several writers) Teleny never looses it’s global coherence and keeps your attention fully grabbed until the last, unexpected, lines. It is not a great book but it has many other interesting reasons for me to recommend it.

An Amazon.com customer: "Teleny has long been an outlawed book and in many senses still is. The fact that it is only published by the occasional gay press is symptomatic, and only its presumed author has rescued this book from oblivion I fear. Its subject matter obviously excludes the book from the mainstream of literature, though in my opinion it is well worth reading for any open-minded lover of literature (as the unusual heterosexual female reading this book I think I can afford to say this). "Teleny" is a bizarre and confused book (due to its diverse authors) but never quite lets go of the storyline. The Victorian coyness of the many euphemisms used is quite touching in so explicit a book, and as a story "Teleny" is quite charming and tragic. The style may not be consistent, it is never banal and often witty (how otherwise could anyone even think it was Wilde's?). It is definitely the sort of book that if you start reading it -unless you're a prude- you'll finish. However, if you want to read this book because you think it is Wilde's, and you like his work, you'll find it is never quite up to his standards. If on the other hand you like Wilde and think he was fascinating, read this book: whoever wrote it gives an interesting outlook on the darker side of that famous life. If you love Wilde and are gay, well, read this, you won't have had so much fun reading a literary pornographic novel for a long time." --bem_bom 10:44, 4 Agosto 2006 (UTC)