VV(12): D'Annunzio? Fiume?

[Dave Monroe]

"'Ever heard of D'Annunzio?'  Then: Mussolini?  Fiume?  Italia
irredenta?  Fascisti?  National Socialist German Workers' Party?  Adolf
Hitler?  Kautsky's Independents?" (V., Ch. 9, Sec. ii, p. 24)

Not quite here yet, I realize (then again, we're not always quite in
"Mondaugen's Story," V., Thomas Pynchon, whatever, so ...), and, though
I'll take a shot at annotating all this soon enough, no doubt, a heads
up to German-readin' Pynchon-listers ...

Gumbrecht, Hans U., Friedrich Kittler and Bernhard Siegert.
    Der Dichter als Kommandant: D'Annunzio erobert Fiume.
    Munchen: W. Fink, 1996.

And see as well ...

Kittler, Friedrich.  "Medien und Drogen in Pynchons Zweitem
    Weltkrieg."  Die unvollendete Vernunft: Moderne versus
    Postmoderne.  Frankfurt: Frankfurt am Main, 1987

___________.  "Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second
    World War."  Reading Matters: Narratives in the New
    Media Ecology.  Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz.
    Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1997.

___________. "Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second
    World War."  Literature, Media, Information Systems: Essays.
    Ed. John Johnston.  Amsterdam: G+B Arts, 1997

http://www.powerfoundation.org/interviews/kittler.html

As well as ...

Siegert, Bernhard.  Relais: Geschicke der Literatur als
    Epoche der Post, 1751 - 1913.  Berlin: Brinkmann
    und Bose, 1999.

__________.  Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the
    Postal System.  Trans. Kevin Repp.  Stanford, CA:
    Stanford UP, 1999.

http://141.20.150.7/aesthetic/bsiegert.htm

Let me know ...