Here's an interesting book I just finished: The Book of Lost Books, by Stuart Kelly.
What's this book about? Lost books. Books that people like Homer, Shakespeare, etc. wrote, but now we cannot seem to locate them. They have disappeared from history.
Seems as if there are many writers who fit into this category. Many writers, like Pound and Kafka, were fond of burning their own works when they found them to be sub-par. They didn't want anyone to read work they considered weak attempts. But we know they wrote some books that were burned.
Other writers, like Shakespeare, certainly produced other works that were performed, read, or even published, but for some reason have not survived. Could they be discovered? Possibly. After all, about twenty years ago someone discovered some missing chapters from Huckleberry Finn . . . so it makes you wonder . . . .
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