Inauthentic (Literature)
As inauthentic is a book whose name the author or title are wrong.
Authors and pseudonymous
Some authors write under a name other than their own, called " pen name "for various reasons. The objective may be to protect the family honor: the case for example of Franois-Marie Arouet, "said Voltaire , Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Molire , Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, called George Sand.
The choice of a pseudonym may also be used to evade police or censorship, political and / or religious: for example, Yves-Marie Congar in his diary that tells the magazine Christian Testimony offered him to edit columns under a pseudonym. Similarly, the researcher Christoph Luxenberg , which specializes in language concerning ancient and modern languages of the Middle and Near East, and thus works on the historical-critical research on the Koran , is not as German as his pseudonym the suggests - its safety requires it publishes under a pseudonym.
More simply, it can be to live together several areas of expertise: thus a physician author of medical books can also write novels under another name.
In some cases, the nickname is the rank of Fine Arts: include Emile Ajar and Romain Gary , Fernando Pessoa , or Rrose Selavy.
Books made in the name of another
The Pseudepigrapha are the best known of religious origin: thus the letter of Aristeas or even Pseudepigrapha of the Bible. However, the practice is very common and old: many are the texts of antiquity falsely attributed to a particular author. It is customary in such cases to attach the name of the author highlighted the prefix "pseudo". The best known are:
- the pseudo-Hesiod , author of Shield of Heracles ,
- the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite , the author of the Celestial Hierarchy
- the pseudo-Longinus , author of the Treatise of the Sublime
- the pseudo-Apollodorus , author of the Library
- the pseudo-Apuleius
- the pseudo-Fredegaire
- the pseudo-Augustine
- the pseudo-Hyginus
- the pseudo-Scymnos
- the pseudo-Galen
- the pseudo-Callisthenes
- the pseudo-Plutarch
- the pseudo-Abdias
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