Essays in London and Elsewhere by Henry James

Author:Henry James [James, Henry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781411440395
Publisher: BarnesNoble
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

PIERRE LOTI

A FEW years ago the author of these remarks received from an observant friend then in Paris (not a Frenchman) a letter containing a passage which he ventures to transcribe. His correspondent had been to see a celebrated actress—the most celebrated actress of our time—in a new and successful play.

"She is a wonderful creature, but how a being so intelligent as she can so elaborate what has so little moral stuff in it to work upon I don't comprehend. The play is hard and sinister and horrible without being in the least degree tragic or pathetic; one felt when it was over like an accomplice in some cold-blooded piece of cruelty. I am moved to give up the French and call to my own species to stand from under and let their fate overtake them. Such a disproportionate development of the external perceptions and such a perversion of the natural feelings must work its Nemesis in some way."

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