Reading 1001 discussion

What forms of space do you find in this novel? How are they interrelated?

The way the pages are laid out makes use of space according to what is happening in the novel. Some pages are densely packed and claustrophobic while others are almost empty and echoing.

Ditto. The technique is not new; for example, to a much lesser extent and in a reduced postmodernist vein, Alexandre Jardin's Le Petit Sauvage (1992) contains several pages where the layout and the representation of the story mimics the plot development and the action as it happens.

Patrick wrote: "Ditto. The technique is not new; for example, to a much lesser extent and in a reduced postmodernist vein, Alexandre Jardin's Le Petit Sauvage (1992) contains several pages where the layout and the..."

Although it may not be new, it was the first I have read so it was new to me. I thought the layout was clever and extremely effective in mimicking a sense of disorientation found in the central plot (and secondary story lines)

And the whole premise of the house was that it played with the normal sensation of what space is and how it behaves.