Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

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Fragment ID: 7286

Prefaces and Reviews

Is it good to have a preface, introduction or bhūmikā to one’s book? I would prefer any appreciation to be published separately as a review or criticism.

It is not a question of principle but of feeling and circumstances. One can do either way. To do without anything of the kind (which seems like a recommendation or advertisement) seems the finer way – letting one’s creation stand on its own merits. But the other is the fashion nowadays and I suppose there is something to be said for it.

28 October 1935