Is kartharsis (kάθαρσις) the most important element in fiction?

literally the opposite is true

the best books ive ever read have left me with an unsatisfied yearning towards an unattainable emotion or feeling

>>9180673
Did you consider them good because of that, or do you have some other criteria for quality which you have found are associated with it?

>>9180683

im a huge fan of the sublime in books, which by its nature is fundamentaly ungraspable by the human mind.

so although not all of my favourite books have this yearning of the sublime, a large amount of them do.