Books that were never finished

Richard Hughs' last book in The Human Predicament Trilogy :(

>>9812781
But it was more of a serial installment in a newspaper, not really a novel to be finished. But semantics aside you're completely right, jolly ol' Svejk never eached the front.
On Svejk, is it worth finishing, I quit halfway through.

Also, Musil's The Man Without Qualities

>>9812911

I think so, although I cannot rate the English version as I read it in German. It really depends on if semi-absurdist humour is yours. It is not really "funny" in the traditional way but it succeeds in making you laugh at the Habsburg attempts to keep an empire together by depicting a character just bumbling from a court into a prison cell into a drunken priests company etc., thereby exposing the dissatisfaction and corruption of Austria-Hungary at every level, while using these absurd situations, these absurd reactions from a changing society with ossified upper echelons to still be funny. The really messed up thing is that the book ends just as Svejk is ordered by telegram to the front. I was expecting a conclusion of tremendous hilarity and extreme impersonal cruelty at the same time and got disappointed so hard...

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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

one of bruno schulz's books. streets of crocodiles or something like that

A whole bunch of Middle Earth novels and poems that Tolkien never finished, particularly The Fall of Gondolin.

>>9812781
Dead Souls
The Last Tycoon
Whistle >>9812795

>>9813219
t-thanks for spoiling that all for me anon...

Peter the Great's Negro.

Lucretius De Rerum Natura

Poor guy went mad and committed suicide.

>>9813441

Now come on, what I "spoiled" happens fairly early in the book. The thing about him not reaching the front was already said in a previous post though.

I guess the obvious answer is Kafka's "The Trial". in the half-finished state it sort of holds up as being confounding and episodic because he's Kafka but I imagine it would've been a masterpiece if done properly

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