Volume 9

FICTION

SHELDON GUTERSON AND PINCHUS FLEISHER COMPARED - Ben Guterson

Regarding Fleisher’s notorious, profligate appropriation of others’ works, I found myself fixated by this sentence in an online appreciation: “Harrison, alone among reviewers, has suggested that Fleisher’s motives were hidden even from himself, and that, similar to Irina Ustinov in the notorious episode in which she unknowingly recreated a tale she’d read in childhood, Fleisher was a naïf, suffered from the (disputed) malady known as cryptomnesia, or unconscious plagiarism--the belief that a thought is novel when in fact it is a memory.” (Emphasis mine.)

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