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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "George Tuttle"
<noirfiction@...> wrote:
>
> Is it true that a good book will always find a
publisher? If it is
> true, are unpublished novels best left unpublished,
like for example
> Jim Thompson's The Rip-Off? I liked this
posthumously-published novel.
> It had the quirkiness of The Golden Gizmo, but a
tighter, stronger plot.
>
> I am a believer that the literary marketplace is not
that fair, but I
> am curious how others feel.
>
>
Think Franz Kafka... And Gabriel Garcíˇ MᲱuez had _lots_ of
rejections (more than 20, IIRC) for his masterpiece _One
Hundred Years of Solitude_ before somebody took it. He could
have concluded that it was unpublishable and left it in a
drawer, unpublished. The same goes for Lampedusa's _Il
Gattopardo_, very difficult to publish and he could have just
let it lie, which I think he came close to.
I don't think the marketplace is fair, even less so today
than it was decades ago.
Best,
MrT
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