>author claims his novel is a translated manuscript he found

>translator claims the manuscript is an original work he authored

>translator withholds the living author's name and pretends it's from an old Arabian manuscript instead
t. Vathek

I want to write a novel which is about a man who finds a manuscript containing a play which he translates and presents in full along with commentary

baste

>>24571359
ya nabokov already did it ya crumb

>>24571372
Why can't it be done by someone else too?

>author channels a demon and dictates the book to his wife

>>24571378
other way around Crowley midwit

>>24571372
But what if the fictional piece is good instead of shitty like Nabokov's poem?

>>24571390
The poem was intentionally shitty.

This was done by Joanot Martorell with Tirant lo Blanch in 1490. Was he the first?

>>24571372
My idea isn't as artistic as Nabokov's likely is
I just want to write occultist slop lmao

>>24571050 (OP)
book of mormon