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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ( ) While I feel the Whalestoe letters are the heart and soul of "House of Leaves," I think they're better suited to being read as a part of that larger work than here seperately. There are a few "new" letters included in this edition but I didn't feel they shed any new light on the characters or plot. Worth a perusal, I suppose, but a rather unnecessary publication all around. Well, this does work better as a stand alone piece! As a companion piece to "House of Leaves" it is almost meaningless. And if you have read the 2nd edition to "House of Leaves", this book is useless, as it is almost entirely printed in that book. Definitely don't waste your money! Check it out from your local library, like I did. It's release feels very much like a cash grab by the author and/or the publisher! Having read House of Leaves, I found the back matter to be just as interesting as the footnotes, and possibly the main story itself. When I saw a standalone version of the letters from Johnny Truant’s mother to him, I wondered what the point was. I assume to make this book publishable, Danielewski took the liberty of adding some information, including 11 new, unpublished letters. Within these pages, we see a sine-curve of madness as Johnny’s mother communicates with her displaced son some time after being admitted to a mental institution, and some shorter time after her husband, Johnny’s father, dies in an accident. Taken by itself, it paints a sad picture of a lonely, unstable mother and her self-destructive son occasionally breaking her heart. Taken with the rest of House of Leaves, it paints a broader picture of one of the unreliable narrators in the tangled web of narrators in the book. That is, of course, if you can trust the accuracy of what she is writing to him. I recommend this book only to fans of House of Leaves, especially those who would like to learn more about Johnny, and who found the original collection of letters from his mother to be fascinating. They’re all there, still, as is a bit more information. If this is not you, you can probably safely avoid this book without losing out. Un add-on dispensable pour la Maison des Feuilles, mais n'importe qui arrivé au bout du premier livre voudra lire celui-ci. Ce livret se lit aussi très bien seul, et les lettres de Pelafina sont à elles seules un superbe récit épistolaire, inquiétant par ses non dits et les questions qu'il pose... Et Pelafina a t elle écrit la Maison des Feuilles ? Une hypothèse intéressante... Un indice gratuit : "waldendwyrhta", en anglais très ancien, c'est l'architecte principal ou royal, "master builder" / "King's Builder"... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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