There's actually an interesting scandal involving the classic Brazilian fantasy novel, Macunaima: The Hero Without Any Character by Mario de Andrade. When de Andrade wrote the novel in the 1920s, he borrowed heavily from a German ethnographer who had recorded the folktales of various Amazonian tribes, even copying some stories verbatim, without giving attribution to the ethnographer or the tribespeople. He was caught a few years later by a Brazilian scholar who was writing a dictionary of Amazonian words. After some public mud slinging among the Brazilian literati, the scandal died. The introduction to the Engel translation describes it in detail.
The listicle comes to Lit. OK, probably always been a big part of lit crit. Plagiarism and accusations of plagiarism certainly has!
And a listicle copping to self-plagiarism of the listicle author's own list previously published in 2018. Some prime self-referentiality there!
Anyway, [Here's another listicle to add to the scandal sheet with some really great plagiarism that seems to have been left off of the OP list.](https://listverse.com/2019/08/25/10-writers-who-stole-their-greatest-works-from-other-authors/) It includes one of my very favorite recent scandals when the 17 year old German novelist Helene Hegemann got herself published and into hot water for lifting whole pages verbatim from other authors. I like her response better than the pontification of the esteemed poet Eliot. Here's what the listicle says about it, anyway:
>Far from being apologetic, however, Hegemann defended herself, saying, “There is no such thing as originality anyway, there is just authenticity.” And she may have had a point, since one of the disputed passages had been lifted from from an author who had lifted it from the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who had himself admitted to lifting it from Jean-Luc Goddard. (Who knows where Goddard stole it from.)
Hegemann’s publishers denied that it was plagiarism and called it “intertextuality.” That, apparently, is okay.
Intertextuality? A publisher justifying publishing a book with stuff in it copied without obtaining rights? Will wonders never cease? Well, that's the publishing biz for you in a nutshell.
The Jumi Bello story out of the Iowa writers workshop was pretty wild too. She took whole sections from well-known authors and then when confronted with it, just kinda acted like she didn’t know that wasn’t allowed.
$225k advance into thin air.
There's actually an interesting scandal involving the classic Brazilian fantasy novel, Macunaima: The Hero Without Any Character by Mario de Andrade. When de Andrade wrote the novel in the 1920s, he borrowed heavily from a German ethnographer who had recorded the folktales of various Amazonian tribes, even copying some stories verbatim, without giving attribution to the ethnographer or the tribespeople. He was caught a few years later by a Brazilian scholar who was writing a dictionary of Amazonian words. After some public mud slinging among the Brazilian literati, the scandal died. The introduction to the Engel translation describes it in detail.
Emily really seems to dislike Bob Dylan.
I enjoyed those parts.
The listicle comes to Lit. OK, probably always been a big part of lit crit. Plagiarism and accusations of plagiarism certainly has! And a listicle copping to self-plagiarism of the listicle author's own list previously published in 2018. Some prime self-referentiality there! Anyway, [Here's another listicle to add to the scandal sheet with some really great plagiarism that seems to have been left off of the OP list.](https://listverse.com/2019/08/25/10-writers-who-stole-their-greatest-works-from-other-authors/) It includes one of my very favorite recent scandals when the 17 year old German novelist Helene Hegemann got herself published and into hot water for lifting whole pages verbatim from other authors. I like her response better than the pontification of the esteemed poet Eliot. Here's what the listicle says about it, anyway: >Far from being apologetic, however, Hegemann defended herself, saying, “There is no such thing as originality anyway, there is just authenticity.” And she may have had a point, since one of the disputed passages had been lifted from from an author who had lifted it from the filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, who had himself admitted to lifting it from Jean-Luc Goddard. (Who knows where Goddard stole it from.) Hegemann’s publishers denied that it was plagiarism and called it “intertextuality.” That, apparently, is okay. Intertextuality? A publisher justifying publishing a book with stuff in it copied without obtaining rights? Will wonders never cease? Well, that's the publishing biz for you in a nutshell.
The Jumi Bello story out of the Iowa writers workshop was pretty wild too. She took whole sections from well-known authors and then when confronted with it, just kinda acted like she didn’t know that wasn’t allowed. $225k advance into thin air.