Meaning of [あまりこない] and [全くこない] in the following context


I have a question about the meaning of these two "words" [あまりこない] and [全くこない].

The complete sentence was

> この美術館[あまりこない]ではなくて[全くこない].

The brackets were also in the original text.

This is from an internal monologue of a women during her job. She also
complained that she had not much to do.

For the first part あまりこない, it consists of two sub parts あまり and こない.  
As I understand, あまり means "not much / not very" since こない is a negative verb.

For the second part 全くこない, it consists of two sub parts 全くand こない.  
全く means some thing like "not at all" since こない is also negative.

While I have a basic understanding of these words, I struggle to comprehend
their meaning in the sentence. Why was the negative form of くる used twice, and
I also do not understand why they were placed in brackets.




I think there is a く missing and it should be ではな **く** て, otherwise I would
not understand.

If that's the case, given the context I think that the woman is just saying
"It is not that (people/visitors) seldom come, (they) don't come at all!". I
think you analyzed the sentence quite well after all. Here the speaker just
wants to express a contrast between "not coming often" (あまりこない) and "not
coming at all" (全くこない).

Another thing. You use square brackets but I think you mean these brackets
instead 「」. These ones are usually quotation marks, so it might be that
someone in a previous conversation mentioned that "(people/visitor) seldom
come" 「あまりこない」. Therefore, in her sentence the woman somehow wants to
emphasize that it should have been "do not come at all" 「全くこない」 instead (maybe
in a sort of sarcastic way).

全く+ない expresses a very strong negation (which answers your question about why
来ない is in negative form). You can see some explanation
[here](http://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-
jlpt-n2-grammar-%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8F%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-mattakunai/).

Just for reference, 全く can also express a strong agreement (for example if
saying something like "We have exactly the same opinion (about something)" you
could say 全く同じ in this case, to express a strong emphasis).




I think there is a く missing and it should be ではな **く** て, otherwise I would
not understand.

If that's the case, given the context I think that the woman is just saying
"It is not that (people/visitors) seldom come, (they) don't come at all!". I
think you analyzed the sentence quite well after all. Here the speaker just
wants to express a contrast between "not coming often" (あまりこない) and "not
coming at all" (全くこない).

Another thing. You use square brackets but I think you mean these brackets
instead 「」. These ones are usually quotation marks, so it might be that
someone in a previous conversation mentioned that "(people/visitor) seldom
come" 「あまりこない」. Therefore, in her sentence the woman somehow wants to
emphasize that it should have been "do not come at all" 「全くこない」 instead (maybe
in a sort of sarcastic way).

全く+ない expresses a very strong negation (which answers your question about why
来ない is in negative form). You can see some explanation
[here](http://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-
jlpt-n2-grammar-%E3%81%BE%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8F%EF%BD%9E%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-mattakunai/).

Just for reference, 全く can also express a strong agreement (for example if
saying something like "We have exactly the same opinion (about something)" you
could say 全く同じ in this case, to express a strong emphasis).

