Since its release in the United States in February 2000, The House of Leaves has become cult. Bret Easton Ellis was one of the many fervent admirers. More than a million copies have been sold: 700 pages which renewed the art of the novel, and even the book object, thanks to a hallucinated work on the typography and the layout. Mark Z. Danielewski had offered his text to 32 publishers before Pantheon Books agreed to publish it. Son of the Polish avant-garde filmmaker Tad Danielewski, he had, before this stroke of literary mastery, collaborated on a documentary on Jacques Derrida.
