Hindustan Times
Are books meant to make us feel good? Are they meant to make us cheerful? I don’t think so. Not always.
Books are meant to make us feel awed and humbled. The pleasure they provide – the pleasure of the mind, the joy of seeing worlds created by words – is undimmed even if they are about catastrophic subjects, even if they are nihilistic in their approach or end in tragedy or are untouched by redemption. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged American writer William Styron’s, Books, Madame Bovary, Richard Yates
