Meinong's Jungle Book

Mild spoiler alert..
Amazed to see no reviews of this book. How many does Jane Eyre have? I looked, it's 26000.
What this book is, in its structure, is a melodrama. High intensity speeches, over-eloquent confessions, etc. There's a murder, there's nemesis. But this conventional plot is deeply marinaded, almost dissolved, in a highly naturalistic background of brilliant peasant dialogue and anecdote, which is written - which is the author's genius - in the vernacular, with all the Gaelic grammar, slang, accents and oaths. Without it the book would be slim indeed, because the plot is quite simple and the main characters few. And this extra material gives a mirror and a commentary to the plot. An English PhD would have a field day observing how the killer, steeped in his country's ballads (which are the way people are immortalized in an oral culture) who has the chance to escape, instead gives himself up to the gallows in order to close his story in a ballad-like way, to take some control of his posthumous reputation, to make a bid for immortality in this world even as he's damned in the next.