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EAN : 9782359053593
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 448
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Falsifications and Literary Frauds

Release date : 13/10/2022
“An enthralling essay”, L’Express
Stendhal who signed as Bombet his Life of Haydn, copied from musicologist Carpani (1816); Apollinaire writing his Adventures of Young Don Juan based on a German erotic novel (1905); Rimbaud’s “The Spiritual Hunt” denounced by André Breton (1949); John H. Griffin travelling through the American South “as a black” to... Stendhal who signed as Bombet his Life of Haydn, copied from musicologist Carpani (1816); Apollinaire writing his Adventures of Young Don Juan based on a German erotic novel (1905); Rimbaud’s “The Spiritual Hunt” denounced by André Breton (1949); John H. Griffin travelling through the American South “as a black” to write Black Like Me (1961) and Gunther Wallraff through Germany “as a Turk” (1985); Benjamin Wilkomirski, a lying survivor of Majdanek camp, aka Bruno Grosjean, who shocked everybody with his fake recount (1995); J.T. LeRoy, a scandalous transgender author, who was unmasked in 2006…
From Alexander the Great to the Da Vinci Code, literature, the ultimate art of subterfuge, cannot be separated from falsification, hoax or schizophrenia. Wonderful, shameful or tragic, the new edition of this
book offers an abecedary of the greatest falsifications in literature history.

“Beyond the most renown cases, the investigator emerges from oblivion many exquisite other ones”, Le Point
“A clever dictionary, a flawless knowledge”, Le Figaro Littéraire
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EAN : 9782359053593
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 448
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Écriture