If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.