Navona rescata tres relatos de la autora que sorprenden por su inteligencia y finura.
Fiebre romana
Edith Wharton
Navona Editorial, 2010
Edith Wharton fue una de las plumas más aceradas, críticas y valientes de las letras norteamericanas del cambio de siglo del XIX al XX. Perteneciente a las clases altas de la vieja Nueva York, Wharton no sólo fue la cronista de aquellos salones y épocas sino que sobre todo se dedicó a desmenuzarlos sin ninguna piedad. Su mirada, que era a la vez tierna con but with creatures inplace structures, always flew further than any other of his time and dared to put black on white how it worked the hypocrisy of the rooms and how they devenían in prison for individuals and their personal freedom.
Committed to human rights and freedom of peoples, Wharton was one of America's most cosmopolitan of his time. Europe fully met and settled in France, a country that learned to love after committing himself to their cause during the First World War.
The three stories presented in a tiny and attractive volume the publisher Navona, Wharton has three stories we refer to their subjects but always treated with a special acid. Thus, in the case of "lag Souls" peer pressure corrupts the love of two lovers sneak though there is some hope at the end of the story, something not very common in Wharton.
In "After Holbein" the author portrays the total decline of an era: old Mrs. Jaspar think your house is opening day to give great dinner, when the servants who simulate the decor. Mr. Warley, the other protagonist of the story, it is believed immune to the downward slope but ends up in the mansion of Mrs. Jaspar staging a world already lost.
Finally, in "Roman Fever" two friends of the soul of all life in the eternal city relax during a sunset. The conversation flows and the ghosts of the past return ... incredible surprises.
A while with Wharton, albeit short, is always something deep and powerful. Do not miss it.
Xènia Buss. Diari de Tarragona. 26/02/2011
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