Where are the Authors?

[Richier]

I can't seem to find forums for Steinbeck, Grahame Greene, Umberto Eco...
How long do Authors need to be dead before they get a forum?

[JBI]

They need works published before 1923, or otherwise by some other way in the public domain.

[Richier]

Thanks for responding, I presume 1923 is a copyright issue? I meant a forum to post discussions on the books not to download text. I have been posting on the Orwell 1984 forum (published after 1923)

[Jozanny]

You could do a thread search; I mention many of my readings in passing, and attempted or completed only few sustained discussions, mainly due to the logistics of library borrowing in this weather. There is a review of Eco in the review forum, and while I am a sympathetic Eco reader, I think Foucault's Pendulum is overblown, bordering on caricature, and the point of it all lost in the shuffle; if the good professor is against the pseudo-intellectual pursuit of hemeneutics, a nice article in a good university journal would have sufficed. Rose was different, and stronger despite being earlier--it raised the same issues about anxiety of meaning and deductive logic, but it was a strong story in a unique and creative setting, and the characters were worth caring about.

[Logos]

Hello Richier

Please see the below-linked thread for an explanation on how the discussion part of this site is set up:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=17769

[Basically, the authors you've mentioned won't get their own forums for a long time, if ever; you can start threads about them here, in the General Literature section]

[Richier]

Thanks all, I get it now