Footnote maze · Typographic
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski, 2000
The reader follows nested footnotes, appendices, and an index across several narrators, and has to turn the book, read mirrored text, and track passages that thin to a few words per page.
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How it’s read
- Footnote maze
- The reading path splits across notes, appendices, and apparatus.
- Typographic
- Layout, rotation, color, or spacing is part of the traversal.
Details
- First published
- 2000
- Original language
- English
- Medium
- Needs the physical object
- Yes. An ebook or audiobook would lose the effect.
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