Can we gain any consolation from sad books? What is it about them and about us that makes them worthwhile?
While I’m sure that a well-written, truly sad story, can also be life-enhancing and consolatory, it is very difficult to understand the mechanism that makes this possible.
There’s the pleasure we take from the writing, the beauty [...]
One of the colleges here is offering a course on the five saddest books ever written. If you believe it, they are:
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Awkward Age by Henry James
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
To The North by Elizabeth Bowen
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Perhaps it’s supposed to be the five [...]
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