House of Leaves von Mark Z. Danielewski
The Remastered Full-Color Edition. Appendix: Zampano. With introd. and notes by Johnny Truant

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 736 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Verlag: Pantheon Books, N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780375703768
Auflage / Bände: 2nd ed.

Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski sHouse of Leaves,the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it s a monster. Dazzling.<br>The Washington Post Book World<br> <br>An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book.<br>The Wall Street Journal<br> <br>A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski s feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe.<br>Bret Easton Ellis<br> <br>[Its] chills spark vertigo, its erudition brings on dislocating giddiness . . .House of Leavesis dizzying in every respect.<br>Entertainment Weekly<br> <br>Stunning . . . What could have been a perfectly entertaining bit of literary<br>horror is instead an assault on the nature of story.<br>Spin<br><br>This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down, or persuasively conclude reading. In fact, when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price inThe Fly,still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages.<br>Jonathan Lethem, author ofMotherless Brooklyn<br> <br>[A] tour de force first novel. [It] can keep you up at nights and make you never look at a closet in quite the same way again . . . Staggeringly good fun.<br>Chicago Sun-Times<br> <br>A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.<br>The New York Times<br> <br>If you can imagine that Peter Pan s enemy is not Captain Hook but Neverland itself, or that the whale that swallows Jonah is Moby-Dick, you ll begin to appreciate what this book is about. Anticipate it with dread, seize, and understand. A riveting reading experience.<br>Gregory Maguire, author ofWicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West<br> <br>Grabs hold and won t let go . . . The reader races through the pages exactly as her mind races to find out what happens next.<br>The Village Voice<br> <br>Like Melville s Moby-Dick, Joyce s Ulysses, and Nabokov s Pale Fire, Danielewski s House of Leaves is a grandly ambitious multi-layered work that simply knocks your socks off with its vast scope, erudition, formal inventiveness, and sheer storytelling skills.San Diego Union-TribuneAls der Pulitzer-Preisträger Will Navidson mit seiner Frau und den beiden Kindern in das Haus zieht, ahnt er nicht, wie hier sein Leben aus den Fugen geraten wird. Ganz beiläufig filmt er die alltäglichen Vorgänge in den Zimmern und Fluren; ganz beiläufig muss er feststellen, dass dieses Haus über Räume verfügt, die kein Grundriss verzeichnet.THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.<br><br>''Simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious."  Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times<br> <br>"Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent it renders most other fiction meaningless."Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author ofAmerican Psycho<br> <br>This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore. Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author ofMotherless Brooklyn<br><br>One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years<br><br>Years ago, whenHouse of Leaveswas first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.<br><br>Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of the backrooms, and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games.<br> <br>Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, 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 enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.4USMark Z. Danielewski was born in 1966.House of Leavesis his first novel.

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