Reyes Monforte, the shadow of plagiarism tarnishes his award-winning novel

• Controversy: The people of Manises, angry with Reyes Monforte

In the universe of the arts, plagiarism is the order of the day.

Others may call it inspiration.

But to bread, bread and wine, wine.

In the last decades there are media cases:

Madonna against Lady Gaga, Carmen Formoso against Camilo José Cela ... and then there is Pedro Sánchez's doctoral thesis.

In recent days, Reyes Monforte (45) has returned to be in vogue by associating it with that damn word that condemns in secula seculorum.

The Madrid-born author, the widow of actor Pepe Sancho, who rose to fame for the successful novel

published in 2015 the work

, winner of the XIV edition of the Alfonso X El Sabio Historical Novel Award from the Espasa publishing house

Happiness turned to gall.

His story about the

between the Spanish

was too similar to the one written by Valentina Chemberdjí entitled

(2009).

And here the tomato begins.

Valentina and her husband, Mark Melnikov, decided to make their case public in the press to

after two lawyers told them that in Spain the laws on this issue did not guarantee success, that it would take a long time and

The Melnikov-Chamberdjí were left ojiplático because an expert report confirmed through two computer programs that there was

In Reyes Monforte's book there were

-a common trick to make what belongs to

someone else

pass as yours-, an

, experiences that only someone close to the Prokófiev family could know - Valentina was a friend of Lina and was in direct contact with her grandson, Serguei Prokófiefv Junior, who heads the Prokófiev Foundation in Paris- and as the Russian author confessed to

,

In October 2015,

compared four extracts from each book under the title

to attest to the similarities, but as

, Reyes Monforte's lawyer,

tells LOC

, "there has been no a judge who says that those four paragraphs constitute a crime of plagiarism. "

The lawyer is blunt:

I do not have to prove it because the law already says so. And if I am guilty it is because there is a final sentence that declares my guilt, but they have not gone here even by civil means nor penal. I already tell you, they

".

Serguei admitted at the time that Monforte never contacted him, while Chemberdjí had access to photos, letters and private diaries.

On the Foundation's website, the descendant of the composer of the opera

based on the book by Tolstoi, published that "Reyes Monforte is not a specialist in classical music or particularly in the compositions of the beginning of the 20th century. This is very suspicious that it presents a dense text with specific data on this topic, populated by a large number of personalities of whom it knows nothing, a

and with a lot of ambition to succeed supported by a series of articles in various media which, to our knowledge, were

".

Marcos García-Montes has told us that "they are freaking out with the press instead of going to court. But if they wanted to file a criminal complaint about plagiarism it would be prescribed because the book came out in May 2015."

The Espasa publishing house ignored the phone calls and

sent by LOC to gather more information and expand the point of view.

Supreme ruling

The accusing party has exited the forum.

When calling the Akal publishing house, to which the Siglo XXI Editores belongs, which published the original story, the press person commented: "I don't know what position Valentina has on the subject, I'll give her your contact and see if she wants to answer" .

Silence continues.

The marriage made noise in some media, but now there seems to be some caution or misgivings.

When the Melnikov-Chemberdjí spread the plagiarism,

After different judicial processes,

because there was no attack on honor.

During the hearings, the legal representation of the Russian author raised the issue of plagiarism, but the order of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court dated July 1, 2020 "criticizes the fact that the process has focused on the issue. whether or not there has been plagiarism apart from the issues that are the subject of the process ".

The issue is not over yet because "it is pending that what has been lost, the

will repair it through a sentence that says that there has been illegitimate interference, that

And how these people are scared with the Constitutional because it can give us the reason since our appeal has arguments and judgments to spare protected by the European Court of Human Rights, they have once again become dizzy ".

If this continues, the next step will be to

, "because we are bored," García-Montes sentenced.

Pepe Sancho and Reyes Monforte in 2011.

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