Carmer vs Vice

José Pacheco Pereira, neste post do Abrupto chama a atenção para um recente caso de plágio. O interessante artigo, publicado por Robert Clark Young no «New York Press» fala de um estranho caso de obsessão plagiária de Brad Vice, nestes termos:

«Plagiarism tends to be a first-draft offense; it is now possible to trace Vice's plagiarism from its genesis in his original documents. The pattern sketches itself out—plagiarism in manuscript form, plagiarism in a dissertation, plagiarism in a story appearing in the small magazine Five Points, plagiarism in a story in the Atlantic Monthly, plagiarism in a story reprinted in the anthology New Stories from the South, plagiarism in at least two stories reprinted in a book that is awarded the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Following this long journey of highway robbery, one can begin to feel the fever of the kleptomaniac's joy in stealing, the exhilarating fear of detection, the thrill of not getting caught, the secret pleasure in having swiped Carl Carmer's Klansmen's shoes, in having scooped up Jim Dent's poor little screwworms. The secret stolen things are here for the entire Earth to see, yet they are not seen. Until they are seen.»

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