Издания и произведения

The homoerotic novel Teleny is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The book was published in 1893 in 200 copies by Leonard Smithers who praised it as being "the most powerful and cleverly written erotic romance which has appeared in the English language" during that era, "a book that will certainly rank as the chief of its class."

Эротический роман, который на основании многочисленных косвенных данных приписывается великому английскому писателю Оскару Уайльду, - настоящая литературная сенсация. Роман был издан анонимно в 1893 году, через три года после "Портрета Дориана Грея", и с тех пор считается абсолютным шедевром в своем жанре. История любви двух молодых людей описана во всех психологических, анатомических и эротических подробностях без какого бы то ни было стеснения, читатель переносится из душной атмосферы борделя в холодную роскошь фамильного особняка, из сияющего концертного зала в студию художника.

Did Oscar Wilde write Teleny? Certainly, it has often been attributed to him, in whole or in part. It is a problem that has exercised bibliographers of "curiosa" since the first plublication of the 1883 edition, limited to 200 copies. The lush prose of this classic of homosexual love has great similarities with that of The Picture of Dorian Grey. It recounts, in painfully graphic terms, the progress of the obsessive passion felt by Camille Des Grieux for Rene Teleny. The hot-house atmosphere of fin-de-siecle Paris is wonderfully evoked, and lends to this first great homosexual novel the claustrophobic atmosphere that characterized the…

The prose of this homosexual love story recounts the progress of the obsessive passion felt by Camille Des Grieux for Rene Teleny. The atmosphere of Paris lends a claustrophobic feeling to the love that dare not speak its name.