I don’t know if its too cerebral or I just don’t appreciate literature or what, but I am not a fan. Wait, that’s it?!?!?!? What kind of ending is that!?!?!?! This is why I am so wary of adult fiction. He was Piranesi, but Piranesi has no place in our world so he’s also laying dormant. Wait, so now he’s three different people? He was Matthew Rose Sorenson, but he’s just laying dormant. He’s not going to stay in the House is he? The Other is NOT your friend!ĭo I really need to know all these details about Piranesi’s preparation for the flood?ġ6 is a woman! Knew it. There is indeed much to be spoiled here, but unlike other such mysteries. But who ripped out the pages?įreaking finally, Piranesi. Clarke has written a book it is hard to review without committing that worst of critical sins, the giving away of spoilers. Norrell with her new novel, Piranesi, a fantasy that draws on the tradition of modernist magical realism. Oh dang, Piranesi was a journalist and the House robbed him of his memory. Susanna Clarke follows Jonathan Strange & Mr. Hold up, he only got a few years in prison for imprisoning another person? He’s a psychopath and they let him back into society?ĭid Piranesi take out pages from his own journals to keep future him from figuring things out about Ketterly? Things must have gotten really bad to do that. In this curious water-lapped world, Piranesi is at first quite passive (again, a trope from a Narnia book), content with the bounty with which he considers himself enveloped. Your preferences are configured to warn you when images may be sensitive. By clicking View Page, you affirm that you are at least eighteen years old. its delightful and weird and beautiful and i loved every second of it. Man, the 70s was a wild time with occultists and getting to other planes of existence may not be appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work. this book is best read knowing very little about it. Is this some sort of “World Between Worlds” setting? Ben Solo wandering around the House somewhere? Hm, this book seems rather anti-progressive. So other people can visit this dimension and can leave, but he’s just messing with Piranesi. So, I hypothesize that they had a palaver about their shared experiences and that “brought” the first victim back to the particular feeling of isolation and led them to relive their mental break.New person! Another old dude, though. The Narrator says they take the other victim back to the labyrinth, but you never see it (at least, I cannot remember that happening). Spoiler warning So, I did quite enjoy the (mostly) peaceful, simple world. That victim feels so grateful to have someone who had experienced the same situation as they did. Sure, in the book it’s an alternate universe, and that may be true, but unless Susanna Clarke tells me otherwise, I’m sticking with my theory! The reason I hypothesize this is because, along with the statues, The Narrator goes to see another victim of The Other. This may seem silly, but to me, The Narrator actually had a mental break from reality. The Narrator mentions a certain human walking along the road that reminds them of a statue of a King, and that they took the best part of them and projected them upon the statues. To me, it seems like the statues are all people they’ve met in life. When The Narrator finally makes it back to their real world, they’re struck by the similarities of the people that they walk by and how they remind them of the statues they saw spread throughout the labyrinth. From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. You’re back? Good! So, about the statues and the ending.
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