The finale of Season 1 of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI was born in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles.
“[The Familiar] is not only [Mark Z. Danielewski’s] best book since
his acclaimed opera prima, House of Leaves; it’s even better, and
also more accessible. Conceived as the book version of a
long-running TV show, its . . . volumes tell the tale of a smart,
fragile and epileptic little girl who finds a cat that may or may
not be magical. Their encounter sets off a chain reaction that
starts with her immediate family and will probably reach almost
every corner of the world. “There is no writer in America that
resembles Mark Z. Danielewski even remotely. His books are
disturbing Freudian fairy-tales, monumental and intimate at the
same time, discordantly polyphonic, populated by wise children and
lost parents, soldiers and storytellers, magical weapons, sentient
houses and familiar spirits. Their words interweave on the page
with paintings and knitting and calligrams, creating painfully
beautiful objects, almost like printed sculptures. They’re also
Literature in High Capitals, contemporary counterparts of Bouvard
et Pécuchet, Mallarmé and Joyce, heirs to the almost mystical
hubris of High Modernism, almost too ambitious for their own good
and rabidly opposed to the weightlessness of our times.”
— Javier Calvo, O
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