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Although House Of Leaves is odd it is not even the oddest thing Mark Z Danielewski has written, and there’s pretty strong competition from others. Dhalgren by S
by aardvark179 5y ago
Although House Of Leaves is odd it is not even the oddest thing Mark Z Danielewski has written, and there’s pretty strong competition from others. Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany is more restrained in its typography but has a strange looping narrative that starts and ends in the middle of the same sentence; Lanark by Alasdair Gray has incredible typographic feats and certainly a strange story; and the works of B S Johnson probably have them all beat.
And then there are things like Cyberpositive by 0(rphan)d(rift>)…
- mcphage 5y ago> has a strange looping narrative that starts and ends in the middle of the same sentence James Joyce did that with Finnegan’s Wake back in the ‘30s.
- aardvark179 5y agoTrue, but of the two I think Dhalgren is easier to recommend to a stranger, who I only know liked House of Leaves.
- mcphage 5y agoI've never even read Dhalgren, but I'm sure you're right :-)