I remember my immediate reaction to reading James Joyce’s Dubliners.
I felt sad and despondent.
When I commented on it, Maru asked me, “Isn’t that what Joyce was trying to do? To make you feel an emotion about a certain time and place in history?”
It helped me take a step back and see literature, art, and music, in a new light.
Sometimes the sadness, the grief, or the discomfort, is exactly what the artist wanted the world to hear.