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2016-03-14 21:51:39 Post No. 7811924
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2016-03-14 21:51:39
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Thinking on it, aren't most literary geniuses recognized in their lifetimes?
It doesn't happen right away, true. It usually occurs when they're old men/women, and they had to toil decades in obscurity first. However, it seems to me that sooner or later the public does come to recognize and celebrate genuinely talented writers before they die. Even Kafka had a certain degree of fame in his lifetime.
The only genius I can think of who went totally unacknowledged in his life was Melville, and he's sort of the exception that proves the rule.
