Best Tragedy & Love Novel Of The World
In literature Love and tragedies go hand in hand. Seriously
I think barring some light romance books, majority of the well know love
stories are tragedies. If we look at Hindi literature, the two of the very few
romance novels of Hindi, Gunaho Ka Devta and Kasap are tragedies of love.
There are so many tragedy books online and you must have
read a lot them. But now, what I am going to tell you is the book which I find
as the best tragedy novel ever.
It is a biography of a legend, but the legend that could
never live a life of even a simple man and died struggling with his consecutive
worldly failures. Yes, I am talking about the book, Lust For Life by IrwingStone, a biography of legendary painter, Vincent Van Gogh.
Today if I accidentally manage to own any one of his
paintings, I think I will not have to work rest of my life and could spend life
in a luxury by just selling that painting. But how paradoxical is when we learn
about the life of that painter who painted it, he struggled for everything
almost everything throughout his life.
Once in the book, Irwing quotes Van Gogh as, “It's so easy
to love. The only hard thing is to be loved”—this is the zest of Vincent’s
life, every other woman who comes to his life goes away, leaving him empty and
they go away not because Vincent is bad, but because he is poor, he in poverty.
On several occasions, he had to remain empty stomach due to poverty. He has to
struggle, every day for his art and he dies in the same struggle…
This may sound a bit too much trag
ic, but this too much is
even less when we try to imagine the real life situations of that painter. Now,
years after his death he is a legend. Art galleries earn by selling, reselling
his paintings, his paintings which were considered to be of no use when he
lived.
Another interesting aspect of this book is the way it has
been written, it never gives a feel that it is biography. It remains as
interesting as a fiction novel but touches every inch and corner of our heart.
Don’t believe me, give a try, go ahead and buy books online,
read it and them make your mind. You will never be able to forget Vincent rest
of your life.
(Views are personal; there could be other better tragedy
novels too)
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