Edith Wharton - Cinco Histórias de Luz e Sombra

«Edith Wharton [New York, 1862 – Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, 1937] became a skillful builder of atmospheres struck by light, shadow, and above all by an unspoken element that guarantees their peculiar seduction. And in almost all of them lies the fundamental lesson of Henry James's texts: the exclusive point of view of one of the characters, limiting and leaving us at the mercy of what their participation in the plot allows us to know. The choices in this book wander through five of these "disturbed" texts [«The Chambermaid's Bell», «Confession», «Later», «According to Holbein», «A Bottle of Perrier»].»
Aníbal Fernandes

«It is said that Edith Wharton's style is a clear and luminous way of making things appear precise and affecting us beyond what is actually written.» But this cannot be disregarded here as true: that the mystery and threat of the endless sands, the enveloping heat, the absence of the passage of time, the silence, the inaccessibility—all become luminous, although it is something more than that; it is something that makes us ponder, astonishes us when it becomes clear, and ultimately leads to precision, affecting us beyond what its design reveals.»
Ellery Queen