O Retrato de Dorian Gray: uma análise em três atos do mito faustico.

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the convergent and divergent links in a rereading of the novel “The picture of Dorian Gray” under the light of the Faustus´ Myth, one of the most important of the universal literature, which had as main principle of analysis the nomenclatures of the poem “O primeiro Fausto” by Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). In order to provide as a theoretical base to this research, we could highlight the bibliographic contributions of ABRAMS (1986), BRUNNEL (1998), CARTER & McRAE (1996), CEIA (2010), CEVASCO & SIQUEIRA (1988), HEISE (2001), HOLLAND (2000) and ROLLEMBERG (2001). With regards to our rereading of Faustus´ Myth under the main principles of the Fernando Pessoa´s poem, we found many evidences which connected and differ in the novel The picture of Dorian Gray and the Faust’s Myth. What confirms even more the importance of this myth to the literature and Arts. The various versions can reflect a desire of reaching the immortality, the power and the domain through knowledge, but also the underlying hazards on this search.