Critical Analysis of The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May by Mark Z. Danielewski
Pantheon, 2015
ISBN: 978-0375714948
Paperback, 880 pp., $25
This book is a phenomenal start to an in-progress series that will eventually have 27 parts (Danielewski is currently at work on the third). It will be published on May 12, 2015, and you can preorder it here. (In my opinion it’s worth the money, both for reasons you can read below if you decide to stick with me and for the brilliant colorful artwork, high-quality binding/pages, etcetera.) There are some general thematic spoilers in this essay if you’re concerned about that, but the actual events of the novel are not given away. For a pdf version, which contains better formatting and all of the characters’ fonts, see my work page.
The Signiconic & Negation in The Familiar
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