Cultural suggestion: “The house of leaves”, the house of words

We enter The house of leaves, the cult novel by Mark Z. Danielewski republished in French (Monsieur Toussaint Louverture), without knowing if we will come out in one piece. Over the course of 700 pages, you have to know how to slip into a character who haunts the footnotes, into a house that changes shape depending on the day, to venture into a maze of scholarly references, some true, others false . But above all you have to accept getting lost in a labyrinth, abandoning yourself to the games of mirrors and complex typographies. In short, entering straight into what literature has the best – and most unusual – to offer.

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