Abstract

The cover image of Two Tombeaux To Oscar Wilde is a pen-and-ink drawing by Jean Cocteau of a young male figure looking into the full-length mirrored front of what appears to be a wardrobe. As in some seventeenth-century vanitas paintings, the discrepancy between the figure and its reflection plays with our perception: here the reflection looks directly out at the viewer, as if it has become a portrait, or a separate human being. This suggestion of splitting evokes The Picture of Dorian Gray, ...

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