“The House of Leaves”, an all-consuming maze imagined by Mark Z. Danielewski

Since its release in the United States in February 2000, The House of Leaves has become cult. Bret Easton Ellis was one of the many fervent admirers. More than a million copies have been sold: 700 pages which renewed the art of the novel, and even the book object, thanks to a hallucinated work on the typography and the layout. Mark Z. Danielewski had offered his text to 32 publishers before Pantheon Books agreed to publish it. Son of the Polish avant-garde filmmaker Tad Danielewski, he had, before this stroke of literary mastery, collaborated on a documentary on Jacques Derrida.