Pulp International - Vintage cover for Il vizio che brucia aka The Picture of Dorian Gray

Jan 11 2014

WILDE CAT

Oscar Wilde was an okay writer and all, but you know what his fiction really needed? Women in catsuits.

Believe it or not, this book entitled Il vizio che brucia (translation: “The Vice that Burns”) is Oscar Wilde’s macabre classic The Picture of Dorian Gray, sexed up for the Italian reading market. Who is this supposed to be on the cover? Sybil Vane, the innocent young actress? The country girl Hetty Merton? Neither, we suppose, since they didn’t wear backless catsuits, as far as we remember. But even if this pulpification of Wilde’s classic has no relationship to the actual text, the Benedetto Caroselli art makes it collectible. The edition was published by Grandi Edizioni Internazionali as part of their I Romanzi Diabolici series and appeared in 1964. See more Caroselli here.

Italy Grandi Edizioni Internazionali The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Benedetto Caroselli cover art literature

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