| Summary: | This work presents three short fictional texts recounting certain significant passages in the career of our central character, Isidore Tousignant, plagiarism expert and expert plagiarist. A trainee journalist, later a doctoral student and finally a university lecturer, our wily protagonist explores the repetitions of journalism and the redundancies of amourous discourse; textual duplicity in literary research; and perversions of professorial authority and authorial integrity in an academic context. === In the acompanying critical essay, we present varied notions of literary plagiarism, supported by selected works of Charles Nodier, Jorge Luis Borges, and Danilo Kis, and we propose certain possible avenues of inquiry into the subject, referring principally to the research of Michel Schneider, Gerard Genette, and Marilyn Randall.
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