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A "literary scandals" collection?
- T.E. Lawrence's "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
Not sure about this one; because the author didn't approve of it? No, because he seems to have made rather a lot of it up. The scandal was provoked by Richard Aldington's biography, though there had been an earlier book (with "Arab Revolt" in the title, I forget the author) which had deflated Lawrence's self-publicity in the mid-1930s. Probably the bit that got people's attention was Aldington's claim that the incident in which Lawrence was buggered by border guards was pure sexual fantasy. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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A "literary scandals" collection?
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Jon Meyers wrote: Dave wrote: On Thu, 04 May 2006 22:13:30 -0500, Jon Meyers wrote: Helium wrote: Jon Meyers wrote: The recent stories about Kaavya Viswanathan's partially plagiarized .... got me to wondering about the possibilities for a collection based on books that erupted into literary scandals over plagiarism and/or authenticity. What else would you include? What about books that offended the moral and religious sensibilities of established elites e.g. books by Darwin, Copernicus, etc. as well as novels banned by the church e.g. Joyce's Ulysses, Cleland's Fannie Hill, etc. (the lists are endless), and so on. There seems to be many criteria for creating an interesting collection of books that caused scandals. regards, He2 I thought about those types of books, too, but I was really thinking specifically about controversies of authorship or authority (plagiarism, falsification, misrepresentation) rather than books whose content offended on grounds of morality, religion, etc. What about historical revisionists- David Irving and the Holocaust for example? Would you include that as an example of literary scandal? I realize this could easily devolve into Flat Earth, Lemurian kookery, but kept at the upper levels of (what passes as) scholarly research and away from Art Bell-ian mouth-breather hysteria would you include this?. I think I wouldn't include these books, because, although they may elide or misrepresent the known facts, and may be the work of total wackjobs, they are, mostly, the work of *sincere* wackjobs. These writers really believe their own nonsense, so there is, in their minds at least, no intent to deceive, no manufacture of fraudulent material being passed off as genuine. So, unless they stole their nutty idea, and the particular expression of it, from some other nut and presented it as their own, these authors, and their books, don't fit the category. --Jon Meyers Carlos Castenada's Don Juan series "The Teachings of Don Juan", etc. Matthew Hill |
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