Archive for February 2010

Plagiarism and Moral Relativism

In books, current affairs on 20 February 2010 with no comments

It has recently been discovered that a critically acclaimed young German author, 17, has plagiarised parts of her novel “Axolotl Roadkill”. In one case, she lifted an entire page from an obscure book with few, if any, changes. The German feuilleton and ‘literary establishment’ have been discussing this for the last few weeks, accomplishing nothing. [...]