NONFICTION
Che cos'è essere sofisticati? Faye Hammil, autrice di Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History (Liverpool UP) dice, "I would think of actors who have a restrained stylishness combined with wit and intelligence: Kristin Scott Thomas, Audrey Tautou, Alan Rickman, Kevin Spacey, Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Fry. ... None of these are really young actors, because sophistication isn't a natural quality: it has to be learned, and it requires worldly wisdom and experience." Per Ben Yagoda, About Town: The New Yorker And The World It Made (Da Capo Press, 2000), "knowing, a trifle world-weary, prone to self-consciousness and irony, scornful of conventional wisdom or morality, resistant to enthusiasm or wholehearted commitment of any kind, and incapable of being shocked.” nyer.