Literarischer #11Januar

„Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.“

#ThomasHardy #TessOfTheDUrbervilles Tod 1928

And now I've finished #TessOfTheDUrbervilles... It wasn't at all the book I was expecting when I first heard about it or read the first couple of chapters. It's really sad and, at moments, heartbreaking.
As #ThomasHardy was apparently quite a pessimist, it'll probably be a while before I subject to another story so full of suffering, even if he wrote beautifully and his characters were well constructed, from the strong Tess to the despicable Alec.

@bookstodon