Tuesday, March 03, 2015

History’s Wildest Literary Rumors

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When French author Michel Houellebecq was promoting his 2010 novel The Map and the Territory, winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, and failed to show for several appearances, the media flew into a frenzy. Some even speculated that he was kidnapped. 

This rumor inspired Guillaume Nicloux’s The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq, starring the writer as a version of himself. The film’s official US trailer debuted this week, reminding us of the many literary rumors that have plagued some of literature’s finest. 

Here are just a few. Feel free to add to the list or muse about what these rumors mean about our culture, below.

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