NPPF - Preliminary - Pale Fire & House of Leaves

[The Great Quail]

Jasper writes,

> _Pale Fire_ is an "involuted" (or "self-reflexive") novel -- a novel that
> contains the details concerning its own origin or composition. Anyone got
more?
> _Pale Fire_ is a fictional academic work -- a work of mock scholarship.
> Some of Borges' stories come to mind.  There must be others...?
> And it is a work that contains another work: this makes one think of
> Elizabethan drama, especially _Hamlet_.

There's actually a very recent novel that meets all these criteria: Mark Z.
Danielewski's "House of Leaves."

Clearly inspired in part by "Pale Fire," the book passes itself off as a
genuine set of annotations by one Johnny Truant, who has organized and
annotated the unpublished book, "House of Leaves," written by a Borges-like
figure named Zampano. The subject of Zampano's book is actually a film
called "The Navidson Record," about a house that is bigger inside than it is
outside. 

The actual novel "House of Leaves" is therefore a series of nested stories,
narratives, and annotations.

http://www.houseofleaves.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi

http://www.themodernword.com/review_house_of_leaves.html

--Quail