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House of Leaves (Turtleback Binding Edition) by Mark Z Danielewski; Zampanò; Johnny Truant is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewHad The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on. Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? A

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Mark Z Danielewski; Zampanò; Johnny Truant
Publisher
San Val
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9781862301108
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
Rating
4.13 / 5 (503 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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