This thesis examines the relationship between ethics and literature, drawing on the theories of the ethical turn in literary studies and the postmodernist characteristics of the novel House of Leaves. It attempts to demonstrate how reading the novel deviates from literary norms and how this alters the reader's role. By comparing it with Tomislav Virk's treatment of postmodernist literature in his monograph Strah pred naivnostjo, the thesis aims to establish a clearer understanding of how the work in question is postmodernist. It then highlights the ethical relationships thematized in the novel: the relationship with the Other and family interpersonal relationships. Following Tomislav Virk’s Etični obrat v literarni vedi, the findings within and regarding the ethical turn in literary studies are attempted to be conceptualized together with the specific postmodernist characteristics of the novel in
question and its particular reading.
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