Refuge for the Broken-Hearted: Solace of Literature

Many brilliant thinkers have written many sparkling sentences about the solace of literature during personal and shared dark times — “The Consolations of Writing: Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi” by Rivkah Zim and “Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort” by Jürgen Pieters spring to mind. But I’m not an academic. I’m The post Refuge for the Broken-Hearted:…