I found myself all too often wondering why this book got so many accolades when fantasy and science fiction and horror had been exploring the exact same concepts for decades and all those genres get is dismissed. But somehow, because this was "literary" it was somehow so valuable and avant-garde and wonderful.
It has nothing to do with House of Leaves being "literary" (and for that matter, all books are literary, as all books are literature).
The book received the accolades it did because no one in F/SF before or since had/has treated the concept even a tenth as thoroughly, in such depth, or so artfully.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:31 pm (UTC)I found myself all too often wondering why this book got so many accolades when fantasy and science fiction and horror had been exploring the exact same concepts for decades and all those genres get is dismissed. But somehow, because this was "literary" it was somehow so valuable and avant-garde and wonderful.
It has nothing to do with House of Leaves being "literary" (and for that matter, all books are literary, as all books are literature).
The book received the accolades it did because no one in F/SF before or since had/has treated the concept even a tenth as thoroughly, in such depth, or so artfully.