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I think the book can certainly be read as being a product solely of Johnny Truant. Either he's gone mad, is being haunted, or simply purposefully creating a work of collected texts to create a story.Originally Posted by adgy-san
What I really like about this book is that I am a big fan of 'found text' books, but those, well, at least some of the better known, aren't really postmodern in structure. For example, with something such as Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, well, we get a text from a Governess which is written in a high prose style akin to that of James own style. It’s only a different text because we are told that it is and not because it reads as such.
With House of Leaves, the found texts do in fact feel like texts that are not all written in a literary style, but rather, a style that embodies the persona its coming from, say, the more common Truant or the more academic minded Zampano, or what have you. It does, then, create real specific integration of voices and narrative styles rather than simply having different texts pretty written in some overarching literary style that pretty much parallels the style of the actual writer.
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