It is easier to appropriate writers, of course, if, unlike Swift, they seem to co-operate.
I have to wonder what drives an author to appropriate another writer's work, public domain or not.
Flashman on the March by George MacDonald Fraser HarperCollins £18.99, pp317 Appropriating another writer's creation and not only making him your own, but also turning him into one of the most enduring characters in British fiction is a remarkable coup.
Somehow this seemed appropriate for a writer firmly yet ambivalently ensconced in California.
But during the term of copyright, one cannot appropriate wholesale another writer's creative expression.
But this feels appropriate for a writer who is a "stranger" and an "enemy" to the familial.
But how dare you, a white writer, appropriate the lives and stories of black people you know nothing about?
The statue is placed at street level, which seems appropriate for a writer the city wishes to commemorate but not place on a pedestal.
They are suffused with a bittersweet mood that seems eloquently appropriate to a writer who has explored with such unsparing honesty the depths of human suffering and degradation in the great tragedies.
But to end with Roth's own sad end doesn't seem appropriate for a writer and a book that give so much delight without resorting to fraudulent means or shoddy thinking.
