Fakes, Forgeries, and Fictitious Authors

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Otranton linna

tekijä: Horace Walpole

3,762 jäsentä

127 arvostelua

3.1

2 Members: spiphany, rgashby
Selitykset: spiphany: Originally published under a pseudonym and claiming to be a translation from the Italian. "Found manuscript" genre.

2

O:n tarina

tekijä: Pauline Réage

3,686 jäsentä

82 arvostelua

½ 3.3

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: This woman knew how to keep a secret. (Cf Ingeborg Day.)

3

The History of the Kings of Britain

tekijä: Geoffrey of Monmouth

2,727 jäsentä

21 arvostelua

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: 11th century Latin chronicle supposedly based on ancient British sources. Highly influential into the 16th century, but now considered to be more fabulation than history.

4

Joko - tahi katkelma elämästä

tekijä: Søren Kierkegaard

1,979 jäsentä

16 arvostelua

3.9

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Et al. This one written by Victor Eremita. Cf Pessoa.

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Persialaisia kirjeitä

tekijä: Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

1,784 jäsentä

18 arvostelua

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany

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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae

tekijä: Graeme Macrae Burnet

1,642 jäsentä

85 arvostelua

3.9

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Written in the style of a "true crime" novel but made up of fictional historical documents. Not intended to deceive.

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My Life as a Fake

tekijä: Peter Carey

1,508 jäsentä

36 arvostelua

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Novel about a literary hoax that takes on a life of its own. Inspired by the Ern Malley affair.

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Elämä edessäpäin

tekijä: Romain Gary

1,484 jäsentä

40 arvostelua

4.1

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Emile Ajar won his second Prix Goncourt for this.

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Sierra Madren aarre

tekijä: B. Traven

1,004 jäsentä

20 arvostelua

4.1

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The real identity of the German-language writer behind the pseudonym still remains a matter of much debate and speculation.

10

Ali and Nino

tekijä: Kurban Said

970 jäsentä

48 arvostelua

3.8

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Author behind the pseudonym is still disputed; possibly Essad Bey/Lev Nussimbaum

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Chatterton

tekijä: Peter Ackroyd

888 jäsentä

16 arvostelua

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Novel about Thomas Chatterton (see this list) and an exploration of fiction and authenticity more generally.

12

Codex Seraphinianus

tekijä: Luigi Serafini

811 jäsentä

30 arvostelua

½ 4.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: An illustrated encyclopedia written in a nonsense script (i.e., a non-text pretending to be a text). A literary/artistic experiment, not a hoax, though drawing inspiration from the undeciphered Voynich manuscript (which has been suspected of being a forgery).

13

James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

tekijä: Julie Phillips

752 jäsentä

33 arvostelua

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany

14

The Diaries of Jane Somers

tekijä: Doris Lessing

551 jäsentä

13 arvostelua

3.9

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Published by Lessing under a pseudonym to make a point about how the acceptance of manuscripts and reception of publications is influenced by how famous the author is.

15

Death in Brittany

tekijä: Jean-Luc Bannalec

533 jäsentä

29 arvostelua

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The pseudonym was originally given a fictional biography as a French-German writer from Brest, but later revealed to be German publisher Jörg Bong.

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Knickerbocker's History of New York

tekijä: Washington Irving

438 jäsentä

4 arvostelua

3.2

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: As a publicity stunt prior to publication of the book, Irving spread false reports about the disappearance of the purported author of the book, Dutch historian Mr. Knickerbocker

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Rakkausromaanin resepti

tekijä: Nicolas Barreau

344 jäsentä

20 arvostelua

3.2

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The Frenchman Nicolas Barreau (along with the German translator Sophie Scherrer) may in fact be German author Daniele Thiele.

18

Sisar Marianan rakkauskirjeet

tekijä: Mariana Alcoforado

290 jäsentä

3 arvostelua

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany

19

The Songs of Bilitis

tekijä: Pierre Louÿs

289 jäsentä

4 arvostelua

3.8

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Poems in the manner of Sappho, presented as translations from the ancient Greek.

20

Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems

tekijä: Fernando Pessoa

270 jäsentä

4 arvostelua

4.2

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Pessoa is famous for his use of various personas or "heteronyms". No intent to deceive in this case.

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The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau

tekijä: Graeme Macrae Burnet

252 jäsentä

15 arvostelua

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Purports to be a translation from the French

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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

tekijä: Sir Richard Francis Burton

179 jäsentä

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Pseudotranslation by Arabist Richard Burton, purportedly of of a Persian poem by Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî

23

The City of Light

tekijä: Jacob d'Ancona

171 jäsentä

5 arvostelua

3.1

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The existence of the manuscript upon which Selbourne's translation is based has never been established, and seems likely to be a fiction.

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The poems of Ossian

tekijä: James Macpherson

153 jäsentä

9 arvostelua

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Claimed to be translations of ancient Celtic epic poetry, but in fact largely MacPherson's own creation

25

Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms

tekijä: Carmela Ciuraru

148 jäsentä

6 arvostelua

3.8

Member: spiphany

26

Nat Tate: An American Artist: 1928-1960

tekijä: William Boyd

144 jäsentä

33 arvostelua

3.1

Member: spiphany

27

The Facts of Winter

tekijä: Paul Poissel

137 jäsentä

4 arvostelua

3.8

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Pseudonym + convincing cod non-fiction

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Panter, Tiger & Co.: Eine neue Auswahl aus seinen Schriften und Gedichten

tekijä: Kurt Tucholsky

132 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Like many satirists, Tucholsky mostly published his writing under a variety of aliases, each of whom had their own distinct persona

29

Sarah Binks

tekijä: Paul G. Hiebert

124 jäsentä

4 arvostelua

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Biography of a poet who never existed

30

The Nightwatches of Bonaventura

tekijä: August Klingemann

116 jäsentä

2 arvostelua

4

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The author behind "Bonaventura" was debated into the 1980s. Now generally accepted as being August Klingemann.

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Geoffrey Hill's New and Collected Poems: 1952-1992

tekijä: Geoffrey Hill

113 jäsentä

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Includes the "Songbook Of Sebastian Arrurruz", pseudotranslations of a fictitious Spanish poet.

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La Fille d'un héros de l'Union soviétique

tekijä: Andreï Makine

110 jäsentä

2 arvostelua

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Russian-born Makine originally had to pretend that his French manuscripts were translations because publishers refused to believe he had written them in French. Makine also later published several novels under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde, whose identity was only discovered in 2011.

33

The Ern Malley Affair

tekijä: Michael Heyward

104 jäsentä

2 arvostelua

4

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Companion volume to the collection of his poetry.

34

Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship

tekijä: Anthony Grafton

102 jäsentä

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany

35

The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion

tekijä: Magdalen King-Hall

102 jäsentä

3 arvostelua

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany

36

Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes

tekijä: Melissa Katsoulis

98 jäsentä

6 arvostelua

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany

37

An Incomplete History of the Art of Funerary Violin

tekijä: Rohan Kriwaczek

93 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

3.1

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Presented as a work of musical history about a genre that never existed. According to the author the fiction was not intended as a hoax.

38

Biografi

tekijä: Lloyd Jones

89 jäsentä

3 arvostelua

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Attracted criticism for the way it blends factual travelogue and fiction

39

Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt

tekijä: Ephraim Tutt

78 jäsentä

5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Arthur Train, a lawyer, published numerous stories about legal cases by the fictional Ephraim Tutt; the publication of Tutt's "autobiography" caused much confusion about whether Tutt was in fact fictional.

40

Marbot: A Biography

tekijä: Wolfgang Hildesheimer

77 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Biography of a fictional nineteenth-century British nobleman and art critic

41

Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

tekijä: Ryan O'Neill

52 jäsentä

3 arvostelua

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany

42

I, Libertine

tekijä: Theodore Sturgeon

51 jäsentä

2 arvostelua

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany

43

La vie sexuelle d'Emmanuel Kant

tekijä: Jean-Baptiste Botul

48 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

3

Member: spiphany

44

Papa Hamlet / Ein Tod.

tekijä: Arno Holz

46 jäsentä

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Book by two German authors, originally published under the pseudonym Bjarne P. Holmsen as a translation from the Norwegian

45

Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation

tekijä: Susan Stewart

45 jäsentä

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany

46

The Letters of Wanda Tinasky

tekijä: Wanda Tinasky

38 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Persona used for a number of reader letters sent to two California newspapers in the 1980s. Real identity was likely the poet Tom Hawkins.

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On the Choice of a Mistress & Other Satires & Hoaxes

tekijä: Benjamin Franklin

37 jäsentä

3.8

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Franklin had a number of pseudonymous personas which he used when publishing satirical commentary.

48

Practice to Deceive: The Incredible Story of Literary Forgery's Most Notorious Practitioners

tekijä: Joseph Rosenblum

34 jäsentä

4

Member: spiphany

49

The history of a hoax : Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and The old librarian's almanack

tekijä: Wayne A. Wiegand

33 jäsentä

2 arvostelua

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany

50

Faking Literature

tekijä: K. K. Ruthven

30 jäsentä

3.8

Member: spiphany

51

Collected Poems

tekijä: Michael Donaghy

27 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

4

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Includes "Seven Poems from the Welsh" attributed to the fictional poet Sion ap Brydydd.

52

Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction

tekijä: Mario Bellatin

27 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany

53

The Rowley Poems

tekijä: Thomas Chatterton

26 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

Member: spiphany

54

The Balloon Hoax

tekijä: Edgar Allan Poe

23 jäsentä

3

Member: spiphany

55

The Sin Eater and The Washer of the Ford and Other Legendary Mortalities

tekijä: Fiona Macleod

21 jäsentä

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: William Sharp went so far as to enlist his sister to assist him in maintaining the ruse of Fiona MacLeod being a real person.

56

Ern Malley - Collected Poems (Imprint poetry)

tekijä: Ern Malley

18 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

3

Member: spiphany

57

Katerina Brac

tekijä: Christopher Reid

17 jäsentä

2.8

Member: spiphany

58

Los poemas de Sidney West

tekijä: Juan Gelman

16 jäsentä

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

59

Ananios of Kleitor

tekijä: George Economou

14 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

½ 4.3

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: I've read more than one review treating this as a work of non-fiction.

60

Deliquescences of Adoré Floupette

tekijä: Henri Beauclair

14 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

3.8

Member: spiphany

61

A Digit of the Moon

tekijä: F. W. Bain

13 jäsentä

5

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Not a story from Sanskrit despite some critics of the time believing it was.

62

The Oera Linda Book

tekijä: J.G. Ottema

13 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

4

Member: spiphany

63

Arioflotga

tekijä: Frank Kuppner

11 jäsentä

3.2

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: a poetic index, a false history of its MS

64

Spectra : a book of poetic experiments

tekijä: Emanuel Morgan

10 jäsentä

4

Member: spiphany

65

Jilted city

tekijä: Patrick McGuinness

8 jäsentä

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Includes a number of ostensible translations of the Romanian poet Liviu Campanu, alongside original poems and translations of actually existing poets.

66

The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania

tekijä: Peter Markoe

8 jäsentä

1 arvostelu

4

Member: spiphany

67

Das Kleine Lexikon der Provinzliteratur

tekijä: Pedro Lenz

8 jäsentä

4

Member: spiphany

68

Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity

tekijä: Christopher L. Miller

7 jäsentä

5

Member: spiphany

69

The love poems of Marichiko

tekijä: Marichiko

7 jäsentä

5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Pseudotranslation by American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth pretending to be a young Japanese woman.

70

The Wisdom of Uncle Kasimir

tekijä: Gabi Czerniak

7 jäsentä

½ 3.5

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: I've seen this too reviewed as non-fiction.

71

Walladmor

tekijä: Willibald Alexis

6 jäsentä

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The young author presented his novel as a German translation of a book by his idol, Walter Scott.

72

The voyages of the Venetian brothers, Nicolò & Antonio Zeno, to the northern seas, in the XIVth century, comprising the

tekijä: Richard Henry Major

6 jäsentä

3

Member: spiphany

73

Trojan War: The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian

tekijä: R. M. Frazer

6 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Two two frauds or fictions from antiquity, both purportedly written by survivors of the Trojan War.

74

Land of the Snow Men

tekijä: George Belden

6 jäsentä

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: pseudonym + convincing cod non-fiction--good review here: http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/review6.htm

75

Echo's Grove

tekijä: Derek Mahon

6 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Collection of translations and adaptations of various poets, including poems by the fictional Indian poet Gopal Singh.

76

Vortigern, an historical tragedy in five acts represented at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Henry the Second.

tekijä: William Henry Ireland

6 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: "Lost Shakespeare" manuscripts forged by Ireland in the 18th century

77

The pleasant and surprizing adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his fifteen years captivity on the island of ...

tekijä: Daniel Defoe

6 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: 18th century account by a shipwrecked sailor in Madagascar, later believed to be a fiction (possibly by Defoe), but may in fact be genuine.

78

The Bowmen

tekijä: Arthur Machen

5 jäsentä

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: In a way, the inverse of the others: the story was straightforwardly fiction but the public turned it into a hoax after the fact.

79

Saracen Island: The Poems of Andreas Karavis

tekijä: David Solway

5 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Supported by various people who were aware of or had recognized the pretense but spontaneously decided to play along, including a dentist who posed as Karavis for the press. The author has published several additional pseudotranslations by other personas.

80

The Elegies of Quintilius

tekijä: Peter Russell

5 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The Roman poet "Quintilius" is an invention of Russell

81

Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway song: with historical and traditional notices relative to the manners and customs of the peasantry

tekijä: Robert Hartley Cromek

4 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Collection of "old Scottish ballads" which were mostly original creations of a contemporary poet, Allan Cunningham. Cromek may or may not have been aware of the poems' real origins.

82

The Poems of Renata Ferreira (Portuguese in the Americas Series)

tekijä: Frank X. Gaspar

4 jäsentä

Member: spiphany

83

Сочинения Козьмы Пруткова

tekijä: Kozma Prutkov

4 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Collective pseudonym invented by four 19th-century Russian satirical poets

84

Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.

tekijä: Alan Sokal

3 jäsentä

4

Member: bluepiano
Selitykset: bluepiano: Why didn't this occur to me straight away? Notorious hoax.

85

The epistles of Phalaris Translated from the Greek. To which are added, some select epistles of the most eminent Greek writers. By Thomas Francklin, M. A. Fellow of Trinity-College, Cambridge

tekijä: Pseudo-Phalaris

3 jäsentä

½ 2.5

Member: spiphany

86

Aléas Ich

tekijä: Aléa Torik

3 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: The discovery that the biography of "Aléa Torik" was a fiction caused a stir in the German blogosphere and media (the name might have been a clue...)

87

Der Sturm

tekijä: Per Johansson

3 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: A "Swedish" crime novel written by two German authors with the help of a fictional translator

88

Feodor Vladimir Larrovitch; an appreciation of his life and work

tekijä: William George Jordan

2 jäsentä

Member: spiphany

89

Winter in Tirane: The Stories of Jiri Kajane (Volume 1)

tekijä: Jiri Kajane

2 jäsentä

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Not an "Albanian writer" at all, it turns out.

90

EXAMEN DE LA OBRA DE HERBERT QUAIN

tekijä: Jorge Luis Borges

1 jäsen

1

Member: spiphany

91

La Guzla [i.e. Prosper Mérimée], ou, Choix de poésies illyriques : recueilles dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie et l'Herzegowine

tekijä: Prosper Mérimée

1 jäsen

Member: spiphany

92

La chasse spirituelle d'Arthur Rimbaud les illuminations

tekijä: Daniel Verstraete

1 jäsen

Member: spiphany

93

Georges Zuk: Selected Verse

tekijä: Georges Zuk

1 jäsen

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: British-Canadian author Robin Skelton writing as a French surrealist poet.

94

An den Mauern des Paradieses

tekijä: Martin Schneitewind

1 jäsen

Member: spiphany
Selitykset: spiphany: Speculations abound as to whether Schneitewind ever existed or is an invention of the manuscript's "discoverers", Köhlmeier and Schrott (the latter seems most likely).

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