Mark Z. Danielewski (1966-) is an author. Danielewski is best known for his novel House of Leaves.
Life[]
The son of a Polish avant-garde film director by the name of Tad Danielewski and the older brother of the singer Poe (or Anne Danielewski), Mark was born in New York City in March of 1966. As a young boy, Mark moved across the world with his father due to his dad's various film projects (living for a time in Ghana, India, Spain, Switzerland, and Britain along with the U.S.A.) before the family settled in the city of Provo when Mark was ten.
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Writing style[]
Mark has described his writing style as signiconic, describing this further as: "Signiconic = sign + icon. Rather than engage those textual faculties of the mind remediating the pictorial or those visual faculties remediating language, the signiconic simultaneously engages both in order to lessen the significance of both and therefore achieve a third perception no longer dependent on sign and image for remediating a world in which the mind plays no part."
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Notable works[]
- The Whalestoe Letters - a novella that ties into House of Leaves
- The Fifty Year Sword - a novella about a seamstress caring for five orphans
- The Little Blue Kite - a kid's book about a kid learning to fly a kite
Novels[]
- House of Leaves - his most well-known novel, an extremely inventive ergodic text
- Only Revolutions - a road novel
- Tom's Crossing - a novel about a murder in Utah (NOTE: Not yet published)
The Familiar[]
- One Rainy Day in May
- Into the Forest
- Honeysuckle & Pain
- Hades
- Redwood
Gallery[]
See also[]
- Jim Mortimore
- John Barth
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Stephen Hall
- H.P. Lovecraft
- David Foster Wallace
- Vladimir Nabokov
- William T. Vollmann
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads