La Maison aux mille étages

by Jan Weiss

288 pages

Published February 12, 2025

Reviews

[Jessy Bunel · Rating 1 out of 5]

1er livre terminé cette année et QUELLE MERDE.

Désolé pour mon mec qui me l’a offert mais j’ai autant souffert que le personnage principal tout au long du livre.

[Lrigami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entre Kafka et Douglas Adams. Un roman de science-fiction bien en avance sur son temps et transposable à souhait à la société d'aujourd'hui. Bonus pour la fin qui fait relire de nombreux passages du livre sous un nouvel angle !

[samsam · Rating 4 out of 5]

A man wakes up in a building, with no memory, and starts going up the stairs. The man starts remembering his name and parts of his identity, and discovers he is on a mission in the House of a Thousand Floors, an allegory of modern society. After multiple more-or-less surreal encounters, the protagonist will eventually pierce the mysteries of the building, and of its omnipresent master, Ohisver Muller.

This novel from 1929 has been quite an enjoyable read, especially for a novel that was quite precursor in its style at the time.