Writers Who Were Loved Only When They Died

[Anonymous No.7412275]

i.e George Orwell, Herman Melville

[Anonymous No.7412281]

David Foster Wallace

[Anonymous No.7412288]

I've heard this about Melville somewhere, is there any truth to it?

[Anonymous No.7412290]

Kafka as well I believe

[Anonymous No.7412296]

>>7412275
Stirner

[Anonymous No.7412306]

>>7412288
He died poor after Moby Dick and now that book gets its dick sucked.

[Anonymous No.7412307]

>>7412288

Moby Dick wasn't widely received as a masterpiece until he was a good 30 years dead

Dante also had a delay in being recognized, though that's mostly because he finished Paradiso soon before his death and he was in exile

[Anonymous No.7412321]

>>7412306
>>7412307
didn't he write bartlebly in the depth of his disillusionment?

[Anonymous No.7412323]

>>7412306
Deservedly. His short stories are also very good.

[Anonymous No.7412333]

>>7412275
I think you mean e.g. not i.e. Or at least e.g. works better here

[Anonymous No.7412342]

>>7412323
The prose were good; especially when they drifted into American Shakespeare-esque voice. But there was too much crap about cetology and what are the different parts of a ship.

[Anonymous No.7412361]

[Anonymous No.7412372]

Auden did nothing wrong

[Anonymous No.7412389]

>>7412342
>Reading Cetology
>thinking it's about whales

You need to go reread friend

[Anonymous No.7412397]

>>7412389
What was it about?

[Anonymous No.7412411]

>>7412389
I was reading a novel, not a textbook in cetology 101.

[Anonymous No.7412425]

>>7412397
>>7412411

The chapter is metaphorical of how librarians catologued books and subjects in the 19th century.

Interesting? Probably not.
Good prose? Sure.

[Anonymous No.7412431]

>>7412425
I found it interesting because I like whales and I'm autistic, but what's the reason Melville would use that chapter as a metaphor for that?

[Anonymous No.7412434]

>>7412431
Probably because he was autistic and wanted to find a way to write about cataloging without actually talking about cataloging.

[Anonymous No.7412436]

>>7412389

fuck you it was about whales

[Anonymous No.7412442]

>>7412290
Some of his best stuff wasn't even published until after he died so yeah

[Anonymous No.7412457]

>>7412442
Weren't those fragments and unfinished though?

[Anonymous No.7412467]

>>7412389
Merica fuck ya~!

[Anonymous No.7412489]

>>7412457
But they included The Castle and The Trial

[Anonymous No.7412512]

>>7412275
>>7412288
Melville's Typee was a big hit in his lifetime

[Anonymous No.7412519]

Moby-Dick has an entire chapter dedicated to a single dick joke. It's a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.7412520]

>>7412457
Some, like Amerika, were certainly unfinished, but from what I remember the majority of his stuff was unpublished when he died. He supposedly didn't want any of it published and actually told his friend to burn it all when he died. I also seem to remember reading that he was still revising a lot of it when he died, but it seems unfair to say they were unfinished in the sense that they form coherent and complete stories (unlike Amerika), and seems like he was the type who would have kept revising until he died no matter how long he lived.

[Anonymous No.7412540]

>>7412519
Don't forget the fart joke towards the beginning.

>For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim) . . .

>yfw Pythagoras came up with "beans, beans, the more ya eat, the more the more ya fart . . . "

[Anonymous No.7412584]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.7412654]

>>7412540
>about to start reading Moby-Dick once the semester ends
>getting hype
>read this
>hype is at maximum

oh i am ready

[Anonymous No.7412666]

Sylvia Plath

Her manner of death made her famous.

[Anonymous No.7412706]

Albert Camus, he died with not many friends and opposed popular ideas. He gained popularity because he was a real nigga and resonated with future generations.