Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 7351
Tragedy in Fiction
I did not like the tragic ending of Jyotirmayi’s story. The conditions of true tragedy are not fulfilled, so far as I can see. Why create sorrow in literature wantonly?
That depends on the work itself. If it involves inevitably a tragic end, that has to be allowed to come. It is only if the tragedy is dragged in unnaturally for the sake of a forceful ending that it is inartistic.
13 January 1936