"There were two people in him, he told me"

[valancy_s]

Gentleman and scholar steve_mollmann pointed me toward an article in the Times Literary Supplement this afternoon which he described as a brilliant act of literary detection. Having just finished reading it, I'd have to concur.

When Dickens met Dostoevsky by Eric Naiman It begins with the occasion, reported in several biographies of both men, when Dickens and

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[litlover12]

If you don't mind yet another sitting :-) , "The Guardian" has a follow-up piece.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/10/man-behind-dickens-dostoevsky-hoax?CMP=twt_gu

[valancy_s]

He's so baffled that the academic world didn't want him, yet feels no compunction about deliberately falsifying history while calling himself a historian. Ugh, what a loathsome little man!

[litlover12]

That's about the size of it!

[ticktockman]

Shades of House of Leaves. Well, of the beginning, at least. I never finished House of Leaves, but I intend to do so at some point.

Is anyone sure that Eric Naiman actually exists?

*daha*