Italo Calvino's Legacy

I just read this interesting article about Italo Calvino not being a postmodernist. I always thought he was one. Here's a quick review of the source:

In a brief article titled "Italo Calvino's Legacy: The Constant and Consistent Vision," Rosetta Di Pace-Jordan explores the great Italian writer's stance toward literature. Calvino is often thrown into the camp of the postmodernists, but Di Pace-Jordan disagrees. Though Calvino has postmodernist tendencies, it is his refusal to lose feeling of the self and the referential world that sets him apart.

Di Pace-Jordan's argument goes against what many literary scholars believe: that Calvino is surely a postmodernist. Her argument is too short to be comprehensive or to address many competing points in depth. But, she makes a convincing argument, with plenty of examples, particularly how Calvino deals with space. It is the way he relies on abilities of the eye in the stories to manipulate space that Di Pace-Jordan says began setting him apart from other authors in post war Italy.

This analysis would fit into to any paper discussing postmodernism or for a paper analyzing Calvino's style. Di-Pace Jordan's assertion that Calvino is not a postmodernist could work as a counter-argument in a paper as well.