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Book of leaves danielewski7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() There he discovers the corpse of an old man known only as Zampano. A trainee tattooist who calls himself Johnny Truant, obscuring his real name to wrap himself in his delinquent reputation, is called to the LA apartment of his friend Lude - think Qualudes/lewd. ![]() His mission is to sow confusion, deliberately misleading the reader at almost every turn and undermining the credibility of his interlocutors.Īs plots go, it is not the easiest to precis. It is a novel in which something is always just lurking out of sight: a spectral beast the real identity and motivations of the alleged author (or authors) the key to understanding its labyrinthine and multi-layered stories, all of which dissolve under the scrutiny of closer observation.Ĭonfused? You should be, for that is Danielewski's intention in an experimental novel that is at once a genuinely scary chiller, a satire on the business of criticism and a meditation on the way we read. ![]() Danielewski's House of Leaves, his genre-defying debut novel. The same hallucinatory experience is writ large in Mark Z. There is always another one walking beside you When I count, there are only you and I together Who is the third who walks always beside you? ![]()
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