Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can variously describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements to lighten the overall mood or a serious play with a happy ending.

Waiting for Godot
The Casual Vacancy
Lolita
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Der Besuch der alten Dame
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Tempest
Infinite Jest
The Merchant of Venice
The Bee Sting
Lessons in Chemistry
The Winter's Tale
Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
Cat’s Cradle
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienEast of Eden by John SteinbeckLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellIt by Stephen  King
Big Fat Reads Worth The Effort 2.0
44 books — 69 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Books Both Sad and Funny
31 books — 7 voters

Robin Hyde
A moment. Did I mention it? Charles, perhaps finding that he was not much of a success with the lower middle classes, developed in middle life a habit of ennobling the friends who did the decent thing by him. One finds his record full of barons and comtes; the grain of salt is recommended.
Robin Hyde, Check to your king

Haruki Murakami
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex being a great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of laziness or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. ...more
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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