Unfinished novels – what would you like to see the most? Also, a Joyce question.

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Somewhere I remember reading that, after Finnegans, Joyce wished to write a small book about water. Perhaps poetry? I can't remember the exact quote, but it was something plain and direct to the effect of his future ambitions. It would be helpful to a particular piece of research I'm doing if I could find the quote; or some reference to it.

― remy bean, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

Additionally, it would be great to read The Owl in the Daylight and Titus Awakes.

― remy bean, Sunday, 11 March 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

This is about all I can find, sounds apocryphal:

Whatever plans Joyce may have had for a work to follow Finnegans Wake remain a mystery, although some rumors persisted after his death in 1941: he is presumed to have commented that his next book would be a simple one, and also that, having written a book about a river in Finnegans Wake, his next project would be a book about the sea. Not as frequently quoted is a remark that he made during the valiant resistance of the Greeks to the invasion by Fascist Italy: that he was contemplating the writing of a Greek tragedy.

― G00blar, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

Dostoevsky was planning a sequel to Brothers Karamozov when he died...

― wmlynch, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

By no means am I a Dickensian but I would have enjoyed knowing what he intended with Edwin Drood. Meantime, the final novels of E. R. Eddison, Ian Fleming and Mervyn Peake were incomplete and/or filled in with outlines or substandard editing due to their deaths or extended illnesses.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to read The Man Without Qualities and The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr but their incomplete nature always scares me off

― bernard snowy, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dead Souls, part 2, I guess. That's not so much unfinished as incinerated though.

― Øystein, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to read The Man Without Qualities and The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr but their incomplete nature always scares me off

bernard snowy on Sunday, March 11, 2007 10:14 PM (31 minutes ago)

i love the incomplete nature of the man w/o qualities! it made me feel ok about stopping after the first book (hey he didn't even finish it so why should i?)

― s1ocki, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

didn't malcolm lowry have a ton of unfinished work (or stuff destroyed by fire)?

― gershy, Monday, 12 March 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

Rabbit Rises From the Grave

― Oilyrags, Monday, 12 March 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

only two other references for the 'book about the sea' legend... anybody got a copy of ellman handy?

― remy bean, Monday, 12 March 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

I think it'd be interesting to know what films were left unfinished ny ILX-ors. Or intended to be watched later but never had the will to. The ones I can remember are:

The Wild Bunch
Rio Bravo
The Leopard
Fanny and Alexander
La Terra Trema
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Rabbits

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 5 March 2010 10:49 (fifteen years ago)

sorry, wrong thread :(

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 5 March 2010 10:50 (fifteen years ago)

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