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Critics have aptly compared Mason to the experimental novelist Italo Calvino; the looping path of “The Lost Books of The Odyssey” calls to mind the continual beginnings of Calvino??s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” and the distorted views of Venice in “Invisible Cities” find their match in Mason’s ever-refracted portrait of Odysseus. Both authors leave the reader with the task of sorting through their sketches. Like Calvino, Mason trades in shadows...
...rereading offers as much a sense of discovery as the first reading.” Mason’s reimagining takes such discovery to heart. He himself may be aware of the similarities between his and the Italian author’s work. Many of his plot twists recall Calvino??s own piece, “The Odysseys Within ‘The Odyssey,’” which opens by wondering, “How many Odysseys does ‘The Odyssey’ contain?” Mason’s shifting variations...
Although no one in the group sang, two members of the band occasionally interrupted the languid, drawn-out notes of the violin and base with readings of passages of Italo Calvino??s book, Invisible Cities. Perhaps too obscurely poetic to be fully grasped or even enjoyed, the band’s bizarre music, nevertheless, had a calming, almost hypnotic quality, which sadly was periodically obliterated by intentionally jarring outbursts of radio static. There is no need to say that the band continuously kept its audience guessing for what would come next...
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