The Picture of Dorian Gray — Page 1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
von Oscar Wilde
Contents
Inhalt
THE PREFACE
DAS VORWORT
CHAPTER I.
KAPITEL I.
CHAPTER II.
KAPITEL II.
CHAPTER III.
KAPITEL III.
CHAPTER IV.
KAPITEL IV.
CHAPTER V.
KAPITEL V.
CHAPTER VI.
KAPITEL VI.
CHAPTER VII.
KAPITEL VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
KAPITEL VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
KAPITEL IX.
CHAPTER X.
KAPITEL X.
CHAPTER XI.
KAPITEL XI.
CHAPTER XII.
KAPITEL XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
KAPITEL XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
KAPITEL XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
KAPITEL XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
KAPITEL XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
KAPITEL XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
KAPITEL XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
KAPITEL XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
KAPITEL XX.
THE PREFACE
DAS VORWORT
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
Der Künstler ist der Schöpfer schöner Dinge.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
Die Kunst zu enthüllen und den Künstler zu verbergen ist das Ziel der Kunst.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
Der Kritiker ist derjenige, der seinen Eindruck von schönen Dingen in eine andere Art oder ein neues Medium übersetzen kann.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Die höchste wie die niedrigste Form der Kritik ist eine Art Autobiografie.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
Diejenigen, die in schönen Dingen hässliche Bedeutungen finden, sind verdorben, ohne dabei charmant zu sein.
This is a fault.
Das ist ein Fehler.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.
Diejenigen, die in schönen Dingen schöne Bedeutungen finden, sind die Gebildeten.
For these there is hope.
Für diese gibt es Hoffnung.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
Sie sind die Auserwählten, für die schöne Dinge nur Schönheit bedeuten.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Es gibt kein moralisches oder unmoralisches Buch.
Books are well written, or badly written.
Bücher sind entweder gut geschrieben oder schlecht geschrieben.
That is all.
Das ist alles.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass.
Die Abneigung des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts gegen den Realismus ist die Wut Calibans, der sein eigenes Gesicht in einem Spiegel erblickt.
The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
Die Abneigung des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts gegen die Romantik ist die Wut Calibans, der sein eigenes Gesicht nicht in einem Spiegel sieht.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Das moralische Leben des Menschen ist Teil des Stoffes des Künstlers, aber die Moral der Kunst besteht in dem vollkommenen Gebrauch eines unvollkommenen Mediums.
No artist desires to prove anything.
Kein Künstler möchte irgendetwas beweisen.
Even things that are true can be proved.
Sogar Dinge, die wahr sind, können bewiesen werden.
Vocabulary
- Bildnis
- Portrait or likeness of a person
- von
- Preposition meaning 'by' or 'from'
- Inhalt
- Contents or subject matter of a text
- VORWORT
- Foreword or preface of a book
- KAPITEL
- Chapter or section of a book
- Künstler
- Artist or creative person who makes art
- Schöpfer
- Creator of something, one who makes things
- schöner
- More beautiful, comparative form of schön
- Dinge
- Things or objects, plural of Ding
- Kunst
- Art or a creative skill or discipline
- enthüllen
- To reveal or uncover something hidden
- verbergen
- To hide or conceal something from others
- Ziel
- Goal, aim, or objective of an action
- Kritiker
- Critic who evaluates art or literature
- derjenige
- The one who, that particular person
- Eindruck
- Impression or effect something has on someone
- schönen
- Inflected form of schön, meaning beautiful
- Dingen
- Dative plural of Ding, meaning things
- andere
- Another or different one, other
- Art
- Kind, type, or manner of something
- neues
- New or fresh, neuter adjective form
- Medium
- Medium or means through which art is expressed
- übersetzen
- To translate something into another language or form
- höchste
- Highest or greatest, superlative form of hoch
- niedrigste
- Lowest, superlative form of niedrig
- Form
- Form, shape, or structure of something
- Kritik
- Criticism or critical evaluation of something
- Autobiografie
- Autobiography, a self-written life story
- Diejenigen
- Those who, referring to a specific group
- hässliche
- Ugly or unpleasant, inflected adjective form
- Bedeutungen
- Meanings or significances, plural of Bedeutung
- finden
- To find or discover something
- verdorben
- Corrupted, spoiled, or morally depraved
- ohne
- Preposition meaning 'without'
- dabei
- In doing so, at the same time, thereby
- charmant
- Charming or delightfully attractive in manner
- Fehler
- Mistake, error, or fault in something
- schöne
- Beautiful, inflected form of schön
- Gebildeten
- Educated or cultured people, the learned
- Hoffnung
- Hope or expectation for a positive outcome
- Auserwählten
- The chosen ones or elect, specially selected people
- nur
- Adverb meaning 'only' or 'just'
- Schönheit
- Beauty, the quality of being beautiful
- bedeuten
- To mean or signify something
- kein
- Negative indefinite article meaning 'no' or 'not any'
- moralisches
- Moral or ethical, neuter adjective form
- unmoralisches
- Immoral or unethical, neuter adjective form
- Buch
- Book, a written or printed work
- Bücher
- Books, plural of Buch
- entweder
- Either, used in either-or constructions
- gut
- Good or well, positive adjective
- geschrieben
- Written, past participle of schreiben
- schlecht
- Bad or poor in quality
- alles
- Everything or all, indefinite pronoun
- Abneigung
- Aversion or dislike toward something
- neunzehnten
- Nineteenth, ordinal form of nineteen
- Jahrhunderts
- Of the century, genitive form of Jahrhundert
- gegen
- Preposition meaning 'against' or 'toward'
- Realismus
- Realism, artistic or philosophical movement valuing reality
- Wut
- Rage or fury, intense anger
- eigenes
- Own or one's own, neuter adjective form
- Gesicht
- Face or countenance of a person
- Spiegel
- Mirror, a reflective surface showing one's image
- erblickt
- Catches sight of, glimpses or perceives something
- Romantik
- Romanticism, artistic movement emphasizing emotion and imagination
- moralische
- Moral or ethical, inflected adjective form
- Leben
- Life or living, existence of a person
- Menschen
- People or humans, plural of Mensch
- Teil
- Part or portion of a larger whole
- Stoffes
- Of the material or subject matter, genitive form
- Künstlers
- Of the artist, genitive of Künstler
- Moral
- Morality or moral principles guiding behavior
- besteht
- Consists of or exists, third-person singular of bestehen
- vollkommenen
- Perfect or complete, inflected adjective form
- Gebrauch
- Use or usage of something
- unvollkommenen
- Imperfect or incomplete, inflected adjective form
- Mediums
- Of the medium, genitive form of Medium
- Kein
- No or not any, negative article
- möchte
- Would like to, polite modal verb form
- irgendetwas
- Anything or something, indefinite pronoun
- beweisen
- To prove or demonstrate something conclusively
- Sogar
- Even, emphasizing something surprising or extreme
- wahr
- True or truthful, describing factual accuracy
- können
- To be able to, modal verb meaning 'can'
- bewiesen
- Proven, past participle of beweisen
- werden
- To become or auxiliary verb for passive/future
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