Recommend some Criticism of M&D

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Hi, e.g.

"Lightness and Gravity: Calvino, Pynchon, and Postmodernity" by Alessia
Ricciardi. MLN, Volume 114, Number 5, December 1999, pp. 1062-1077.

The essay compares M&D and Invisible Cities, which according to Ricciardi
represent two different strains of postmodernism. I read the article more
than a decade ago and found it quite interesting, as I'm a Calvino fan
too. But just because I'm also a Calvino fan, I found it more than a bit
lopsided, unfair to Calvino. Invisible Cities is regarded as impassively
ludic and light in contrast to the emotional and ethical gravity of M&D...


Heikki

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Alex Colter wrote:

> I have read various works, some that have been mentioned here, & I was
> wondering if you folks could recommend some essays etc.?
>