: Re: Authorship implications of presenting oneâ€™s manuscript as an older one in the prologue Umberto Eco, E. T. A. Hoffmann and others have pretended (in the introduction to the story) to have found

This is an accepted literary device, as others have said.

However, it would be wise to avoid claiming your "old manuscript" was by a historical figure, especially if they wrote books that are still read. That's really asking for confusion to break out. Claiming that the old manuscript was by a living person risks all sorts of complications, and should definitely be avoided.

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