![]() ![]() There’s also a bittersweet sadness like in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro or a lot of coming-of-age novels. Grief, of course, is a huge focus of many novels like A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness or This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. It seems logical one of those feelings is sadness in its many forms. We’ve always liked to feel things in our fiction. This is called the “ tragic paradox” or the “ paradox of tragedy,” the psychological contradiction of enjoying a tragic story that spans back to even Aristotle. ![]() They make us more grateful for our relationships and the meaning we hold about our lives. Sad short stories and novels alike connect us to our real-life emotions in a controlled way. Everywhere I look, people are begging for sad books! They want books to make them ugly cry, books with devastating endings, books that make them cry in public, the list is endless! Some might think it’s strange to willingly submit yourself to something sure to make you upset, but according to VeryWellMind, it’s perfectly reasonable. ![]()
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