– "House of Leaves" er meget krevende å komme seg gjennom, men også en opplevelse i seg selv. Det er to handlingshistorier gjennom boken. Først har vi hoveddelen, altså "House of Leaves", som best kan beskrives som en avhandling om en dokumentarfilm som omhandler et hus av umulige dimensjoner. Det er nemlig av normal størrelse på utsiden, men inneholder enorme rom, som er langt større enn huset selv. Den andre historien er bygd opp av fotnoter, og omhandler Johnny Truant (fortalt i førsteperson. Truant har nemlig tatt jobben med å redigere og fullføre boken om "House of Leaves", noe som krever sitt av både ham og psyken hans. Det mest bemerkelsesverdige i boken er likevel de mildt sagt kreative måtene teksten kan være plassert på sidene på. Noen sider er teksten opp-ned, andre speilvendt, atter andre på skrå. Noen sider inneholder bare ett ord eller en bokstav, noen kapitler skal leses via første bokstav i hvert ord etc. Med andre ord må man være svært bestemt og ikke rent lite sta for å komme seg gjennom denne boken, men den er svært velskrevet og interessant. Et fint prosjekt for de som leter etter "tung litteratur", med andre ord.
House Of Leaves
«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 in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages.»
Jonathan Lethem
Discover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside that still inspires devotion among an army of fans... Experimental in terms of design, typography, structure and content, this is a fully immersive and novel reading experience you won't be able to forget. Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Black Mirror, Stranger Things and IT.
Les merDiscover the nightmarish tale of a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside that still inspires devotion among an army of fans... Experimental in terms of design, typography, structure and content, this is a fully immersive and novel reading experience you won't be able to forget. Perfect for fans of Twin Peaks, Black Mirror, Stranger Things and IT.
'House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark' - Guardian
'At once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read' - Observer
'Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent' - BRET EASTON ELLIS
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:
'I've never read anything like it' - 5 STARS
'Strange, highly addictive and slowly creepy' - 5 STARS
'A book like no other' - 5 STARS
'The creativity and originality is astonishing' - 5 STARS
'Unreservedly recommended' - 5 STARS
'Buy it, read it, and explore it' - 5 STARS
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A young couple - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green - move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane.
But something is terribly wrong - their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Neither Will nor Karen are prepared to face the consequences of this impossibility.
What happens next is loosely recorded on videotapes and interviews, leading to a compilation of the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane, unveiling a thrilling and terrifying history.
Loose sheets, stained napkins and crammed notebooks prove to be far more than the ramblings of a crazy old man . . .
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Winner of the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award
Medlemsvurdering:
Vernons life is turned upside down when his best friend shoots 16 off their classmates and then himself. To make things even worse, Vernon is suspected of being an accomplice and partner in crime, which he isnt. Woe! His mom is insane, his small-town community is evil in disguise and Vernon is betrayed over and over and over and over again. By more or less everyone. So much woe! If you like Shakespearian type plots that include everything from love, betrayal, death, suicide, betrayal, insane mothers, secret family tragedies, betrayal, abuse, evil villains, unlikely heroes and not to forget; betrayal! Then you will love this book. The characterisations are rich and fulfilling, the subtle hint about the whereabouts of the father is intriguing and the story is heartbreaking, sickening and eye-opening. Pierre is witty, smart and uses the language in innovative ways that suits the narrator very well. This is a great, multi-layered book, and if you dont like it, well, then you are stupid.lily
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Doubleday
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 736
- ISBN
- 9780385603102
- Utgivelsesår
- 2000
- Format
- 24 x 18 cm
Om forfatteren
Anmeldelser
«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 in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages.»
Jonathan Lethem
«Superbly inventive . . . a rare debut: genuinely exciting.»
Guardian
«Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.»
Mail on Sunday
«The fictional equivalent of an earthquake zone . . . should delight literary theorists and story-lovers alike.»
NEW STATESMAN
«An audacious and accomplished debut.»
LITERARY REVIEW
«Intricate, erudite and deeply frightening.»
WALL STREET JOURNAL
«There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish.»
Independent
«Genre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.»
Observer
«Genre-defying . . . a novel in which something is always lurking just out of sight . . . at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read.»
OBSERVER
«This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down or persuasively conclude reading . . . when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages.»
JONATHAN LETHEM
«There is a core of dark power in House of Leaves and a sense of return to the great dark matter of American literature: the haunted houses of Hawthorne, Poe and Lovecraft . . . one of the few fictions genuinely to approach the nightmarish.»
Kim Newman, INDEPENDENT
«Remarkable . . . genuinely clever and learned, often funny, brilliantly constructed and surprisingly touching . . . a debut of scintillating intelligence and scope.»
MAIL ON SUNDAY
«A fascinatingly insane triumph.»
Matt Thorne, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
«An astonishing book . . . buy it, read it, be scared.»
SFX
«House of Leaves has continued to reward readers prepared to navigate its labyrinth, with a community of fans ready to support them if they ever get lost in the dark.»
GUARDIAN
«A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe.»
BRET EASTON ELLIS
«A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distresingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Pynchon and Ballard and Stephen King and David Foster Wallace bowing at Mark's feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter and awe. I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover?»
Bret Easton Ellis
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– Vernons life is turned upside down when his best friend shoots 16 off their classmates and then himself. To make things even worse, Vernon is suspected of being an accomplice and partner in crime, which he isnt. Woe! His mom is insane, his small-town community is evil in disguise and Vernon is betrayed over and over and over and over again. By more or less everyone. So much woe! If you like Shakespearian type plots that include everything from love, betrayal, death, suicide, betrayal, insane mothers, secret family tragedies, betrayal, abuse, evil villains, unlikely heroes and not to forget; betrayal! Then you will love this book. The characterisations are rich and fulfilling, the subtle hint about the whereabouts of the father is intriguing and the story is heartbreaking, sickening and eye-opening. Pierre is witty, smart and uses the language in innovative ways that suits the narrator very well. This is a great, multi-layered book, and if you dont like it, well, then you are stupid.
– How to explain House of Leaves? Its a book about a suitcase of writings, written by an old man (who is now dead) about a movie (who may or may not exist) about a Super Creepy House of Kick Ass, that defies the laws of physics (its bigger on the inside than the outside, among other things). The suitcase of writing is turned into a book by this man, who adds his own comments and footnotes. So does the editors who have edited the fictional book about a fictional movie about a fictional house. Or something like that. The editing and typographical techniques in the book is insane; its filled with footnotes by the three different writers , its written back and forth, upside down, backwards, you have to skip here and there in the book. The layout is amazing and so very aesthetic, and the story is super funky cool. It looks a bit intimidating, but if you can follow directions its a breeze (though perhaps a strong breeze if you are tired). Its a great book, with a different interpretation for each person who reads it, but thats whats so fun about it. Now go read it.
– Hvis jeg kunne ha anmeldt boka uten å gi terningkast, ville jeg ha gjort det, for dette er det boka jeg har lest som jeg minst vet hva jeg syns om terningkastmessig. (ikke at et terningkast sier så fryktelig mye om en bok egentlig). Handlingen er dels sentrert rundt Navidson-familien, som flytter inn i et hus som viser seg å være større inni enn utenpå, og om en film Navidson lager om dette huset, dels om Johnny, som finner notatene til den avdøde Zampano om denne filmen. Er filmen virkelig? Johnny mister etter hvert alt grep om virkeligheteten idet han graver seg ned i historien om huset. Ortografisk og layoutmessig er boka 'spennende', men selv om det kan se ut som det rene galskap, med tekst på kryss og tvers, hundrevis av fotnoter, avsnitt på tysk, gresk, latin, fransk, så er det en tanke bak og et system, og jeg synes det fungerer, selv om det er veldig spesielt. En konseptbok kan en kanskje kalle det, et abstrakt kunstverk mer enn en bok til tider.