Esthetics in Literature, a Multimedia Story

Abstract

In the last twenty years or so, books have been published that overtly challenge the classic appearance of literature. They are not ordinary novels full of the same small letters page after page, but instead are confronting the reader with their particular lay-out. This is happening in a time where some are worried about the uprising of digitization, and fear for the replacement and disappearance of the book as a material object. This claim about the death of the book is not the first, and this essay will show that there need not be a clash between media. Digitization is not a threat for the book, it is an inspiration.