Published: 7, March 2000
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski
Genres: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Horror, Romance, Satire, Suspense, Postmodernism, Literary Fiction, Literature
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Bigger On The Inside, Blair Witch, Ever Read, House Of Leaves, Inside Than The Outside, Johnny Truant, Mark Danielewski, Navidson Record, Stephen King, Witch Project, Within A Story
Summary:
Johnny Truant, a tattoo parlor employee and self-described unreliable narrator, begins House of Leaves with a first-person narrative. Truant is looking for a new place to live when his friend Lude tells him about the apartment of Zampan, a blind, elderly man who lived in Lude's building and died recently.
Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampan in Zampan's apartment that turns out to be an academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record, directed by an acclaimed photojournalist named Will Navidson, despite Truant's claims that the film or its subjects never existed.
The rest of the novel weaves together several narratives, including Zampan's report on the (possibly fictional) film; Truant's autobiographical interjections; a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom; a small transcript of many people's interviews about The Navidson Record by Navidson's partner, Karen; and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors.
Truant's mother is also a narrator, and her voice is heard through a self-contained set of letters called The Whalestoe Letters. The text of each narrator is printed in a different font, making it easier for the reader to follow the novel's sometimes difficult format (Truant in Courier New in the footnotes and Times New Roman in the main narrative in the American edition, the unnamed editors in Bookman, and the letters from Johnny's mother in Dante).
Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 Yes.
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