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Very well said. I also like Kafka's The Castle for incomplete works whose incompleteness is somewhat meta, as the story itself did go in an insane circle where nothing ever gets resolved, and then it abruptly ends, midsentence.  Leaving something incomplete can be a woe to reader and writer alike, but sometimes "being unable to" complete something itself is a message a writer can send to a reader.

An issue I sometimes find in my work and in the work of others occasionally, is when you're trying to make a statement through a character, answer a question to the human condition perhaps, but you can't find what the character has to say, because you don't have that answer yourself. Some of these incomplete works of late authors, or modern works that are in a hiatus for decades often seem that way to me. 

You could just write words to complete the work, but there's no beauty in a work without the truth to it. You can't throw away what you believe in for the result of finishing it, and I think that's the ultimate struggle of an author trying to argue for something much larger than themselves. And even if there's a sadness to see them depart not ever finding that answer, there's an even greater beauty to it, and that's what I like to see in it.