is a series of mishaps, narrated with refined humor and laden with criticism. The structure of the

ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The book contains elements of social criticism, with a strong

criticism, Edgar Allen Poe never ceased writing poetry throughout his turbulent life, and is today regarded

both tragic and comic themes, and modern criticism has created a category of romance for this and

story's de-romanticized depiction of adultery, it has been, called a criticism or parody of the Tristan

, Twain's shorter stories and criticisms have unequalled style and bite. In a review that's less than kind

of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our

bureaucracy, in which the author loses no opportunity for satire and bitter criticism of a state system (not

criticism. Some critics consider this to be the masterpiece of all the stand-alone novels written by

. Criticism of optimism is the main theme of the tale: each of the adventures of the hero tends to prove that

, shirks nine-tenths of the very damaging criticism which I directed against his book. That book denies a

by lucid prose, biting social criticism, total opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support