Julian Barnes Quotes

Naturally, She Had Enemies. Her Success, Her Sex, Her Racial Origin And Her Bohemian Extravagance Reminded The Puritanical Why Actors Used To Be Buried In Unhallowed Ground. And Over The Decades Her Acting Style, Once So Original, Inevitably Dated, Since Naturalness Onstage Is Just As Much An Artifice As Naturalism In The Novel. If The Magic Always Worked For Some - Ellen Terry Called Her "transparent As An Azalea" And Compared Her Stage Presence To "smoke From A Burning Paper" - Others Were Less Kind. Turgenev, Though A Francophile And Himself A Dramatist, Found Her "false, Cold, Affected," And Condemned Her "repulsive Parisian Chic.

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