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House of Leaves is the debut novel by the American author Mark Z.
Danielewski, published by Pantheon Books. The novel quickly became a
bestseller following its March 7, 2000 release. It was followed by a
companion piece, The Whalestoe Letters. The novel has since been
translated into a number of languages.
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The format and structure of the novel is unconventional, with unusual
page layout and style, making it ergodic literature. It contains copious
footnotes, many of which contain footnotes themselves, and some of
which reference books that do not exist.[1] 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. The novel is also distinctive for its multiple
narrators, who interact with each other throughout the story in
disorienting and elaborate ways.
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While some have attempted to describe the book as a horror story, many
readers as well as the author would define the book as a love story if
forced to add such a label. 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. In some
ways, genre is a marketing tool."[2]
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House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee. 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.
House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee. 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.
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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.
The
rest of the novel incorporates several narratives, including Zampanò's
report on the fictional film; Truant's autobiographical interjections; a
small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom; a
small transcript of interviews of many people regarding The Navidson
Record by Navidson's partner, Karen; and occasional brief notes by
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editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes. There is also
another narrator, Truant's mother, whose voice is presented through a
self-contained set of letters titled The Whalestoe Letters. 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
(Truant in Courier New in the footnotes, and the main narrative in Times
New Roman in the American version).
[edit] The Navidson Record
[edit] The Navidson Record
Zampanò's
narrative deals primarily with the Navidson family: Will Navidson, a
photojournalist (partly based on Kevin Carter), his wife Karen Green, an
attractive former fashion model, and their two children, Chad and
Daisy. Navidson's brother, Tom, and several other characters also play a
role later in the story. The Navidson family has recently moved into a
new home in Virginia.
Upon
returning from a trip to Seattle, the Navidson family discovers a
change in their home. A closet-like space shut behind an undecorated
door appears inexplicably where previously there was only a blank wall. A
second door appears at the end of the closet, leading to the children's
room. As Navidson investigates this phenomenon, he finds that the
internal measurements of the house are somehow larger than external
measurements. Initially there is less than an inch of difference, but as
time passes the interior of the house is found to be seemingly
expanding, while maintaining the same exterior proportions. A third
change asserts itself: a dark, cold hallway in their living room wall
that, physically, should extend out into their yard, but does not.
Navidson films this strange place, looping around the outside of the
house to show where the space should be and clearly is not. The filming
of this anomaly comes to be referred to as "The Five and a Half Minute
Hallway". This hallway leads to a maze-like complex, starting with a
large room (the "Anteroom"), which in turn leads to a truly enormous
space (the "Great Hall"), a room primarily distinguished by
an enormous spiral staircase which appears, when viewed from the
landing, to spiral down without end. There is also a multitude of
corridors and rooms leading off from each passage. All of these rooms
and hallways are completely unlit and featureless, consisting of smooth
ash-gray walls, Watch Movies For Free Online floors,
and ceilings. The only sound disturbing the perfect silence of the
hallways is a periodic low growl, the source of which is never fully
explained, although an academic source "quoted" in the book hypothesizes
that the growl is created by the frequent re-shaping of the house.
There
is some discrepancy as to where "The Five and a Half Minute Hallway"
appears. It is quoted by different characters at different times to have
been located in each of the cardinal directions. This first happens
when Zampanò writes that the hallway is in the western wall (House of
Leaves 57), directly contradicting an earlier page where the hallway is
mentioned to be in the northern wall (House of Leaves 4). Johnny's
footnotes point out the contradiction.