Another plagiarism issue - this time to do with a Booker nominated book called 'RED DOG' by Willem Anker. The issue of concern is not the reusing of ideas and plotlines but rather the appropriation of words from Cormac McCathy's 'Blood Meridian'... whole chunks copied word for word (or as near as word for word).
Read the Guardian article by George Berridge. (see link below)
Nice line in the article that aligns so precisely with what I think about the matter: "Literature would be left poorer if authors felt stifled to the point that they could not experiment with that which went before them."
Another good line - which apparently comes from the pen of Cormac McCarthy: "Books are made out of books."
So it is ok to reuse ideas, maybe to do something different with them, but it is not ok to lift particular arrangements of words in the way that Willem Anker has done. To take another's words in this way is what constitutes plagiarism.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2020/mar/04/appropriation-or-plagiarism-booker-novel-poses-difficult-question
Wednesday 4 March 2020
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