>reading unfinished novels Explain to me why someone

>>9143468
havent read Pale King but I would just assume somebody who really liked Wallace would want to check it out. I dont think thats irrational. Same with any other unfinished novels.

9143468
>reading for plot

But seriously there are reasons for reading besides plot.

>>9143468

Wallace often didn't wrap up everything in his works, leaving the climax/resolution implied. He specified that that's where he was going with TPK, that things would be about to happen but wouldn't happen. What he did write and was published does this, both as a whole and in sections (like the thunderstorm).

Dead Souls by Gogol works just fine despite being unfinished and is well worthwhile.

Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoyevsky does end suddenly and without resolution, but it's some of his best female character work and it's intriguing and even poignant to think about what miht have happened.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens is well suited to being unfinished, being a mystery, and has led to much speculation about how it would've ended.

>>9143468

Feels like The Pale King was just one, big love letter to Kafka especially The Castle.

>>9143535
Welcome new friend

>>9143546
>Wallace often didn't wrap up everything in his works, leaving the climax/resolution implied. He specified that that's where he was going with TPK, that things would be about to happen but wouldn't happen. What he did write and was published does this, both as a whole and in sections (like the thunderstorm).
tl;dr it was going to be incoherent and basically unifinished anyway

>>9143546
>Netochka Nezvanova by Dostoyevsky does end suddenly and without resolution, but it's some of his best female character work and it's intriguing and even poignant to think about what miht have happened.
Not to mention that Karamazov was only the 1st volume in a planned set of 3 volumes, thus being one of the most well-known and highly regarded pieces of literature to be unfinished.

>>9143590
He did seem like a Kafka-fiend. I like thinking of it this was as well.

>>9143591
I assume you are saying this because I didn't quote. It's called not giving (you)s

>>9143690
drop trip bro

>>9143745
talk about lit

>>9143765
back atcha, mr. tripfag-obsessed-with-avoiding-(you)s

>>9143784
I already did m8e, I said there are reasons for reading besides plot. Surely one reads for the aesthetic craft of language as well. Surely one doesn't read Shakespeare for plot.

>>9143468
First and only dfw I've read and it was great