unfinished works
Left on desk
Unfinished works are creative productions left incomplete by their makers—novels abandoned mid-draft, symphonies missing final movements, paintings never completed.
The phrase often appears in discussions of artists who died before completion: Schubert's unfinished works include his famous Eighth Symphony.
An artist's unfinished works may be published posthumously, sometimes completed by others, sometimes left fragmentary.
- rough draftUnpolished first attempt
- draftPreliminary version of text
- first draftEarliest written version
- manuscriptOriginal text before publication
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
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- author's legacyinfluence, literary estate, literary influence, writing style, adaptations
- GaudíSagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia, organic forms, modernist architecture
- KafkaThe Metamorphosis, The Trial, Kafkaesque, Amerika, aphorisms
- literature curiositieslast words, apocrypha, hidden messages, marginalia, ghost writers
- Minor workssketches, drafts, fragments, notes, vignettes
unfinished workscomplete works
Entire literary output
finished products · masterworks · masterpieces · final drafts · edited works
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