![]() ![]() Of his most recent novel series, The Familiar, one reader commented that it’s “pretty much a graphic novel where the percentage of text to image is reversed.” Danielewski liked that comment. They borrow from movies - David Lynch comes to mind, but also the time compression play of Christopher Nolan - as much as from graphic novels. In town for the literary fest sponsored by National Book Store and Raffles Makati, the New York-born Danielewski comes from a filmmaking father and visually oriented mother, so it’s understandable that his books go beyond the usual confines of storytelling. ![]() ![]() You experience Danielewski’s books as objects even before you scan a single paragraph: they’re laid out in challenging blocks of text, sometimes crisscrossing into blurs of ink, sometimes reversed or boxed within other chunks of text, sometimes spread out so that pages contain… one… word… at… a… time. Reading the STAR recently (while staying at Raffles Makati for this weekend’s Philippine Readers and Writers Festival), he came across the term “shabu.” “I only know shabu-shabu, so I thought, ‘They’re confiscating soup now? Things are getting out of control!’”Īuthor meets Manila. ![]() Danielewski is a voracious consumer of text, but finds himself baffled by Philippine newspapers. ![]()
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