Metaplagiarism and the Critic's Role as Detective: Ricardo Piglia's Reinvention of Roberto Arlt
1991; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 106; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/462680
ISSN1938-1530
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American Literature Analysis
ResumoA NCONTEMPORARY Latin American writer boldly steals from the bank of world literature. He copies an earlytwentieth-century European short story nearly line by line and leaves dozens of textual clues to denounce his crime. But no one seems to notice. The stolen text takes on a life of its own, as scholars and bibliographers fail to recognize it as a reappropriation, analyzing and cataloging it independently of its pre-text. How is it that such a welldocumented literary transgression goes undetected? Does the postmodernist text lack postmodernist readers?
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