I read a few years ago House of Leaves, it really loved it (especially the deep and worldwide analysis of a fictional work), like top 3 best book I ever read.
I just found a few days ago the concept of ergotic books on this sub, and so I took some recommandations from users, like S., XX or even Infinite Jest which I intend to read as soon as I finish the book I'm reading:
War with the Newts, from Karel Čapek.
The irony here is I suspect it of being maybe an ergotic book, but I'm not sure as I don't understand precisely the concept. It has a lot of different fonts and play with it, several newspapers or diaries entry, scientific article, meeting minutes….
I couldn't believe when I saw it was written in 1935 as I find it really modern in its way of playing with the idea of book. So I have 2 questions, for thoses who read it and the others:
1 : Does it qualify as an ergotic book?
2 : In that case, can it be considered as the first one? Do you know any book that could be older?
by Otozno