And let us also acknowledge there have been significant numbers of same-sex partners who lived happy lives as couples and in spite of terribly repressive social and legislative regimes, in the distant past as well as today. Of course, we ought never to romanticize queer tragedy, nor an era in which repressive and backward social norms brought about tremendous suffering and unhappiness for so many people. It has a power and authenticity that’s visceral, and even if it indulges in excess or melodrama, it manages to touch a chord inside us that writing simply for the sake of writing often misses. Literature produced because it’s the only outlet for experience exists on a different plane from carefully crafted commercial storytelling. Perhaps it’s because so many of their authors were writing from bitter first-hand experience and exorcising personal ordeals in print. Yet those classic tragedies retain a power and magnetism that often surpasses their more upbeat contemporary cousins.

We have no shortage of joyous depictions in print to choose from. O元378761W Page_number_confidence 84.09 Pages 134 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220622210951 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 406 Scandate 20220619004356 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9788884900050 Tts_version 5.What is it about tragic, doomed romances that makes them such irresistible reading? Especially in this day and age? We know, at long last, that it’s possible for queer relationships to turn out happily and for queer books to have happy endings.

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Olivia by dorothy strachey