House of Leaves

The Remastered Full-Color Edition

(3 critiques)

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon …

Livre broché, 709 pages

Langue : English

Publié 15 juillet 2006 par Pantheon.

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ISBN :
978-0-375-42052-8
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Numéro OCLC :
41641311

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Sujets
  • Fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Horror
  • Paranormal

Critiques

a publié une critique de House of Leaves par Mark Z. Danielewski

Experimental and high-concept

It's definitely not your everyday novel and that is probably for the best. Reading through House of Leaves feels like a "project" rather than a leisure experience, it's something that you commit to. Having finished the book a few hours ago, I still can't decide if it is really worth the commitment, but it was certainly an experience. By mixing different narrative layers and perspectives, it sort of also blurs the line between the reader and the book. The act of reading HoL sort of becomes an active part of the experience. I think it's probably fair to ask if HoL is even a novel and I can't quite answer that.

a publié une critique de House of Leaves par Mark Z. Danielewski

Experimental and high-concept

It's definitely not your everyday novel and that is probably for the best. Reading through House of Leaves feels like a "project" rather than a leisure experience, it's something that you commit to. Having finished the book a few hours ago, I still can't decide if it is really worth the commitment, but it was certainly an experience. By mixing different narrative layers and perspectives, it sort of also blurs the line between the reader and the book. The act of reading HoL sort of becomes an active part of the experience. I think it's probably fair to ask if HoL is even a novel and I can't quite answer that.