Who are some authors that died at the height of their career?

[Anonymous No.18284520]

Dostoevsky had a sequel for The Brothers Karamazov planned, Deleuze was going to write a new book about Marx, and Camus died at the height of his career.

[Anonymous No.18284560]

Oh no, another midwit take on Marx was never written. What a tragedy.

[Anonymous No.18284569]

>>18284520
Camus died just when he was about to go to India to study eastern philosophies. Truly a tragedy.

[Anonymous No.18284576]

>>18284569
happened to Jung too, wtf is it with semi-midwit patrician western writers of concepts dying from planning trips to india

[Anonymous No.18284578]

>>18284520
virgil didn't finish the aeneid
i want to die

[Anonymous No.18284583]

>>18284520
Both Pushkin and Lermontov
Think of what could've been accomplished

[Anonymous No.18284584]

WG Sebald

[Anonymous No.18284591]

>>18284578
You fucker I felt the ending was abrupt but I never knew it wasn't finished until I read you're post.

[Anonymous No.18284596]

Dying before your time is always a great career move

[Anonymous No.18284623]

>>18284520
Kafka left most of his works unfinished
Mishima committed sudoku just after finishing the tetralogy

[Anonymous No.18284625]

>>18284576
Poo gods not wanting their secrets disseminated by non-hindus I guess.

[Anonymous No.18284628]

>>18284576
Christ getting involved through divine grace

[Anonymous No.18284658]

>>18284591
It was mostly finished, but Virgil felt some sections still needed to be polished.

[Anonymous No.18284668]

>>18284520
JOHN KEATS DIED AT 25
IMAGINE IF HE HAD LIVED JUST 5 YEARS LONGER, HOLY SHIT!!!

[Anonymous No.18284690]

>>18284520
Miura was not at his peak, he had declined long ago

[Anonymous No.18284792]

>>18284690
It was starting to get good again tho.

[Anonymous No.18285023]

>>18284584
This one is truly a tragedy. He still had like half a dozen great books in him.

[Anonymous No.18285026]

GRRM
rip in heaven big guy

[Anonymous No.18285810]

>>18284623
Mishima's powers declined. Proof - The decay of the angel. He was obsessed with death so much he probably wrote the final book in haste.

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>>18284520
Mishima

[Anonymous No.18286210]

Camus died when he was going places very fast.

[Anonymous No.18286268]

>>18284520

>Christopher Marlowe (29, bar fight)
Presumably would have written some good stuff. Shakespeare hadn't written anything near his best by this age.

>Jane Austen (42 I think, some weird illness)
Almost certainly a big loss. 42 is old for a poet but not for a novelist.

>Keats (25, TB)
Usually considered one of the worst losses. OTOH maybe it's the knowledge of impending doom that made his last year's stuff good, so who knows?

>Shelley (29, drowned)
I guess.

>Pushkin (37, duel)
His wife kept having affairs and in the end he had to do something. Poor P.

>Wilfred Owen (25, war)
Might have been a disappointment had he lived. His stuff is so much a reaction to the unique pressures of the trenches. Hard to say.

>Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Malcolm Lowry, etc
Who knows, with the suicides? Maybe they killed themselves when/because they had run out of things to say, in which case, we didn't lose much.

[Anonymous No.18286326]

>>18284668
>52 years an imbecile
>hit sequel to 12 years a slave

[Anonymous No.18286333]

>>18284520
Janko Polić Kamov

[Anonymous No.18286347]

Robert Musil
Jaroslav Hasek
Robert Bolano
Franz Kafka

[Anonymous No.18286355]

Büchner was a young German poet, playwright and proto-novelist.

His plays are some of the very few who show signs of being capable to be as incentive, humane and poetic as those of Shakespeare. At the same time he could work with new themes and plots and not simply reheat old Greek stories.

He had a great gift for metaphor, which is probably the greatest thing in poetry.

He died with 23 years of age.

[Anonymous No.18286376]

gombrowicz lived in obscurity in argentina for like 20+ years and then when he finally came back to europe, started getting translated and becoming a literary celebrity in france his health went to shit and he dropped dead after being strongly considered for the nobel for like four years in a row and never getting it.

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>>18286268
>Pushkin (37, duel)
The guy who endlessly cucked other men died because he was cucked. Pottery.

[Anonymous No.18286412]

>>18284569
Well at least he was happy when he hit that tree in the passenger seat. At least, we will have to imagine so.

[Anonymous No.18286428]

Hölderlin if you take his fall into insanity as the death of his genius. He was only 30 when he went schizo and lived on for another 43 years.

[Anonymous No.18286436]

>>18284520
All the Brontes died young.
Emily had only written one novel and her poetry. Could you imagine writing Wuthering Heights as your first novel?
Anne was talented too and died like 6 months later.
Charlotte, who I dislike the least lived the longest, but she clearly lived in jealously of Emily.

[Anonymous No.18286443]

>>18286436
dislike the most* oops.
Although Jane Eyre is good, I feel we got jipped with the wrong sister for an extra decade.

[Anonymous No.18286493]

Novalis and Kierkegaard come to mind. I also wonder what sorts of developments Nietzsche might have made in his thought given another 20 or so years.

[Anonymous No.18286618]

>>18284520


Adi Shankara

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>>18286618
>>18284520

the call of the crocodile I guess

[Anonymous No.18286680]

>>18284520
Marx died before completing Das Kapital. He was old but still, that’s pretty sad.

[Anonymous No.18286708]

He died after the release of his valis trilogy novels and right before the theatrical release of blade runner where he would become the biggest name in Hollywood adaptations and could have been a multimillionaire

[Anonymous No.18286722]

>>18286708

He had known something about the coming dystopia and he (((died))).

[Anonymous No.18287243]

>>18286722
this

[Anonymous No.18287289]

>>18286722
>we are romans and shiiit
was it too many meds or not enough?

[Anonymous No.18287304]

>>18284520
the author of mein kampf was sadly bullied into suicide before he could finish hes works, it just make me think how the world would look if people didn't bully people baka

[Anonymous No.18287318]

>>18287304
>suicide
Imagine believing this.

[happiness !!5I6j9kLHLQc No.18287324]

>>18286268
>>Keats (25, TB)
>Usually considered one of the worst losses. OTOH maybe it's the knowledge of impending doom that made his last year's stuff good, so who knows
His production is massive for someone that young.

[Anonymous No.18287334]

>>18284520
C.S. Lewis, Liliana Bodoc, Horacio Quiroga, Byron, Mary Shelley, Lovecraft, William Hope Hodgson, they all died too soon.

[Anonymous No.18287674]

>>18286680
Yep, sad that he didn't die before he could've written any of his works.

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>>18287304
Bad bait and you write like a retard.

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>>18284520

[Anonymous No.18287786]

Wish we could've gotten more from DFW.

[Anonymous No.18287822]

>>18284520
Jaroslav Hasek

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>>18287786
https://www.xvideos.com/tags/dfw
;)

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>>18287289
Too many. His schizoid episode was induced by prescribed painkillers

[Anonymous No.18289702]

>>18284520
didn't die but the fucker simply "quit" writing

[Anonymous No.18289857]

>>18289702
i wonder if he kept privately writing in his later years, and what he would have written about

[Anonymous No.18291143]

Schiller

[Anonymous No.18291426]

Chaucer