![]() ![]() Scliar, 65, who is descended from a family of Jewish immigrants and lives in Porto Allegre, said he considered the idea his "intellectual property" and that his publishers are considering legal action. ![]() "I don't feel I've done something dishonest." "I saw a premise that I liked and I told my own story with it," Martel said on Wednesday from Berlin, where he is teaching a five-month university course on animals in literature. It is this similarity to a story by one of Brazil's most respected authors, Moacyr Scliar, which has started the row over how much of the idea Martel "borrowed" from Scliar's Max and the Cats, in which a teenage Jewish boy is adrift in a boat with a panther after a shipwreck.Īlthough Martel readily credits the story by Scliar, a doctor, as the inspiration for his novel, he says he only read a review of the book. ![]()
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