![]() is almost two books in one - a novel entitled Ship of Theseus by a reclusive, mysterious author named V.M. ( Abrams conceived the story, and Dorst wrote it.) S. One of the best contemporary examples is S. (2013) by film director J.J. Ergodic works don’t spoon-feed readers the way typical books do. Such a book might include inserts or require readers to hunt for clues among pictures or to rotate the spine to keep reading. In Aarseth’s theory, the medium through which a story is told is as important as the story itself. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000), Jonathan Safron Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Marisha Pessl’s Night Film (2013). ![]() Aarseth to encompass books that require a “non-trivial effort” by readers to understand the text by becoming active participants in the telling of the story. ![]() ![]() These books are called “ ergodic literature,” a term coined by the Norwegian academic Espen J. Sometimes a book is a lot more than a book. ![]()
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