In fact, for a few days I had been wandering around Chile with interesting characters buried in Isabel Allende's book, but today I wanted to read The Burning Secret, I saw it in my library without thinking too much and immediately took it in my hand...
This little novel or long story by Stefan Zweig shows us that there is not much that changes compared to the author's other books: our story is set between a mother, a son, and a stranger, and we are incorporated into a small part of Little Edgar's big-throated growth process. Edgar has a less convincing tone at the beginning of the story than in the second part of the book, but the author is quoting this aspect of the character's inner voice in a way that allows us to distinguish The Voice of an adult, especially in the second part of the book.
The story is a familiar story in a sense: the author had a similar theme in his work Horror. There is also a fear here: Edgar's fears spread like a nightmare into the story; Edgar first appears as a child full of anger, hatred, then turns into a very beautiful story character with the consistency of wonder, worry, regret and acceptance and forgiveness. The second part of the book, that is, from the part where the "crime"was committed to the last page, Zweig turns Edgar into a very beautiful, very convincing character. The effort to create an atmosphere that seemed to be a compulsion at the beginning of the story is now becoming more literary in these parts and more softly suited to the spirit of the story. Perhaps Stefan Zweig is more compassionate, compassionate when describing not Edgar's anger and hatred but his love, his maternal longing, the criminal steps he has taken towards growth. This approach softens the hard face of the story,
