Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 27
Fragment ID: 7181
Dickens and Balzac [1]
For literary creation and effective expression, who will deny that style has a great force?
Of course; without style there is no literature – except in fiction, where a man with bad style like Dickens or Balzac can make up by vigour and the power of his substance.
29 October 1933