In literary practices the idea of a single subject is also allpowerful. It is uncommon for books to be signed. The concept
of plagiarism does not exist: it has been established that all works
are the creation of one author, who is atemporal and anonymous.
The critics often invent authors: they select two dissimilar works
-the Tao Te Ching and the 1001 Nights, say-attribute them
to the same writer and then determine most scrupulously the psychology of this interesting homme de lettres ...