Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 7181

Dickens and Balzac [1]

For literary creation and effective expression, who will deny that style has a great force?

Of course; without style there is no literature – except in fiction, where a man with bad style like Dickens or Balzac can make up by vigour and the power of his substance.

29 October 1933