Un libro-labirinto. Echi di Borges in “House of leaves” di Mark Z. Danielewski

Abstract

One of the most remarkable features of Jorge Luis Borges’ work is the deliberate confusion between fictitious quotations and real references, and vice versa. This bizarre intertextual practice has inspired theoretical reflections by critics such as Gérard Genette and Antoine Compagnon, and the work of various writers, such as the American Mark Z. Danielewski. Through an analysis of the Borgesian echoes in Danielewski’s first novel House of Leaves, this article examines the forms taken by quotations, the questions they pose and the effects they produce.

Keywords

• literature
• american