Piranesi

About the book

Piranesi lives within the House, a labyrinth of endless vestibules and staircases where the lower halls flood with tides and the upper reaches are filled with clouds. He logs his days in journals, cataloging thousands of white marble statues and surviving on fish and seaweed. His only human contact is a man he calls The Other, who enlists Piranesi’s help to locate A Secret Knowledge hidden within the architecture. As Piranesi discovers messages from a third person and uncovers fragments of a past life, he realizes the House is not his entire world but a prison or a sanctuary linked to our own.

Readers of atmospheric fantasy and epistolary mysteries will find a study of isolation and the psychological effects of memory loss. The narrative provides a lesson in radical observation and contentment within a restricted environment. Readers finish the book with an understanding of how academic obsession can lead to moral decay, contrasted against a protagonist who maintains his integrity by viewing his surroundings as a benevolent, living entity rather than a puzzle to be solved.

Details

Published

2020

Publisher

Editura Nemira

ISBN

9786064309402

Language

EN