![]() ![]() House of Leaves is Zampanò’s examination of The Navidson Record, including all of his footnotes, as well as many footnotes and entries by Johnny, detailing his life as he puts the text together. Johnny takes it upon himself to compile Zampanò’s notes. Inside Johnny discovers a trunk full of papers a manuscript for a book about a documentary film called The Navidson Record. When looking for a new apartment, his friend takes him to see one in his building where an old man, named Zampanò, has recently died. Johnny Truant, one of our narrators, is a young man who works in a tattoo shop. I suppose the best way to proceed is to break down the narrative frames as simply as I can. It is not technically all these things at once. It is also a collection of letters sent from a mother to her son. It is also a man documenting his personal descent into lust, alienation, and obsession. It is also a scholarly text, breaking down and examining a documentary film. I’ve heard it labeled a horror novel before, which in a way it is-it does deal with the perversion of physical laws and a terrifying journey into an oppressive, unknowable void. It is a labyrinthine book riddled with footnotes that weave throughout the text, multiple unreliable narrators, and frequently disorienting formatting. Danielewski is a bit of a tough novel to define. ![]()
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