>>24540308
>no point besides experimenting with form
Eh? Did you even read it properly? I finished it a couple weeks ago. The story explores the concept of darkness, and the way each person has their own perspective thereof depending on their psyche.
There's the literal darkness of the house in the Navidson Record, but the nature of that space amplifying one's character and subconscious desires exposes each who enters into a subset of darkness separate from that which they end up exploring.
Will's darkness is ambition and doing the right. Tom's is loneliness and not making the best out of his life. Holloway's is his fear of doing the wrong thing, which causes him to perish in the end with his suicidality. Each character has one.
Outside of the Navidson Record, Truant's darkness is his filling of the void with drugs and sex caused from his past trauma. Also Zampano's notes and Truant's descent into madness (the novel indirectly compares Truant to the minotaur, with zampano as the keeper of the labyrinth).
The form of the book didn't do that much, it was meant to exemplify the labyrinthine narrative that inevitably comes with stitching some old man's schizo notes together.
Going back and forth between the footnotes and the story was fun to me.