Is House of Leaves hard to understand?

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House of Leaves by Mark E. Danielewski is the progenitor of what I hope will be an entire movement: the metaphysical horror novel, where horrible ideas are explored with nauseous dread. In House of Leaves' case, the idea explored is that of infinite, impossible space. House of Leaves is very typographically unique. It can be a complicated read: footnotes wind non-linearally throughout, with no set way to follow it. So I wasn't surprised to see on BookBlog someone asking how to read it. What incensed me, though, was the answer: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski may seem like a daunting read but can be easily conquered by following these steps. Begin at the beginning. Follow the pages sequentially. When you come to a footnote, read the footnote then return to where you left off in the text. If you are directed to an appendix, read the appendix then return to where you left off in the text. You are finished when you reach the end.

Yeah, um, no. You're missing the point.

If you haven't read House of Leaves, the plot is complicated to describe, as it is tiered through multiple narrators of varying degrees of sanity in the form of an endless, nearly stream-of-conscious series of clippings, manuscripts and footnotes. Still, the novel is largely concerned with a mock film criticism on a documentary about a door that suddenly appears in a Virginian house. This door leads to an endless labyrinth that defies the dimensions of the containing architecture of the house surrounding it. The labyrinth is completely uniform in all ways except the extensions of its space: it is empty, cold and always black. The Navsion Record relates the various psychological effects this impossible space has upon its explorers, who find the labyrinth constantly twisting and changing around them as they plunge deeper and deeper into its depths. Which is why it's wrong to read the novel in a set, linear fashion. The book in your hands and the Navison House it describes are meant to be indistinguishable architectures. House of Leaves' wholly unique typographical structure is designed so it is impossible to read the novel the same way twice, just as it is impossible for the explorers of the Navison house to map it. House of Leaves is meant to be an impossible space: if you don't explore it like one, the book loses a great deal of its power.

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