The Navidson family has recently moved into a new home in Virginia. Navidson's brother, Tom, and several other characters also play a role later in the story. The Navidson Record Zampanò's narrative deals primarily with the Navidson family: Will Navidson, a photojournalist (partly based on Kevin Carter), his partner Karen Green, an attractive former fashion model, and their two children, Chad and Daisy. Each narrator's text is printed in a distinct font, making it easier for the reader to follow the occasionally challenging format of the novel. There is also another narrator, Truant's mother, whose voice is presented through a self-contained set of letters titled The Whalestoe Letters. The rest of the novel alternates between Zampanò's report on the Mark Danielewski fictional film Truant's autobiographical interjections a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom a small transcript of interviews to many people regarding The Navidson Record by Navidson's partner, Karen and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes. In Zampanò's apartment, Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampanò that turns out to be an academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record. Truant is searching for a new apartment when his friend Lude tells him about the apartment of the recently deceased Zampanò, a blind, elderly man who lived in Lude's building. Plot summary House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee.
In some ways, genre is a marketing tool." House of Leaves has been described as a "satire of academic criticism." Danielewski expands on this point in an interview: "I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right. The novel is also distinctive for its multiple narrators, who interact with each other throughout the story in disorienting and elaborate ways. Some pages contain only a few words or lines of text, arranged in strange ways to mirror the events in the story, often creating both an agoraphobic and a claustrophobic effect. It contains copious footnotes, many of which contain footnotes themselves, and some of which reference books that do not exist. The format and structure of the novel is unconventional, with unusual page layout and style, making it ergodic literature.
The novel has since been translated into a number of foreign languages. It was followed by a companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters. The novel quickly became a bestseller following its March 7, 2000, release, having already developed a cult following through gradual release over the Internet. Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books. House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z. References Article Sources and Contributors
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