Carolyn.
Very Sorry For This Long Delayed Response!!!
In my own reading, two reasons that Pale Fire and Dorian
Gray
resonate strongly together are the similar themes of the psychological
power, or psychological war, or psychological seduction that two men
can seem to be doomed to exert on each other — these of course are Lord
Henry Wotton and Dorian Gray, and John Shade and V. Botkin. I need to
reread Dorian Gray again. I was so fascinated by the Richard
Ellmann biography of Wilde that I haven’t returned to the artist’s work
in a while. I have never read the book The Three Faces of Eve, but when
I was a little kid I remember seeing on TV some scenes of the movie
which frightened me. I’ll read the book the next chance I get. I’d also
like to give Jekyll and Hyde a reading but it always seems to bore me.
I expect horrors and am not horrified. That’s superficial, but that’s
me.
Andrew