The phrase "a tragic version of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a reinterpretation or adaptation of a story, event, or concept that emphasizes its tragic elements.
Example: "The film presents a tragic version of the classic fairy tale, highlighting the darker themes often overlooked in the original."
Alternatives: "a sorrowful interpretation of" or "a heartbreaking adaptation of".
Bobby Gillespie referenced the Beatles' Revolver, so I did my rather tragic version of that – again, quite a blatant pastiche.
She began inventing stories at an early age, after making up a happier ending to Hans Christian Andersen's tragic version of "The Little Mermaid," which she couldn't bear.
At the end, when the Communards are killed by a firing squad, Shostakovich responds not with a tragic utterance but with a distorted version of Offenbach's Can-Can.
When Parks And Recreation first aired, Leslie was depicted as a slightly tragic figure: a grown-up version of Tracy Flick from the film Election whose keenness grated on her co-workers and whose self-importance was disproportionate to the small-potatoes nature of her role.
For literary characters planning an over-the-top, socially unacceptable passion, it's useful to have a strong, steady person to confess to -- who can then be counted on to spread a vetted version of the tragic events.
Sam Norman won the 18-and-under category with a lyrical version of the tragic sequence in Homer's Iliad when Andromache hears that her husband Hector is dead, in splendid contrast to the rhythmic, incantatory rendition of an Anglo-Saxon spell against warts for which Joshua James took second prize.
"Obviously we don't have glamorous sets, but the story is complete — everything is intact," said Terri Sellars, who has restaged a Kirov Ballet version of the tragic love story set in ancient India.
I was actually really looking forward to this: not one, but two (2) types of pork coiled in a sweet embrace, then deep fried into oblivion, like an edible version of the tragic lovers of Pompeii.
The speaker is a contemporary version of Dante's tragic heroine Francesca, condemned to suffer in Hell with her lover, Paolo.
