Of course, there were others before his time, but they are only bones now. His friend is the Other: the only other living person in the world. The middle halls are the land of men and birds and statues.
It is a wondrous universe where the sea floods the lower level halls and the clouds dominate the upper halls. It is his entire world made of a never-ending labyrinth of grand halls filled with statues big and small. Clarke enjoys learning of the many interpretations of the novel from its readers and critics its fantastical elements have wrought many allegorical readings, many of which have surprised her.“The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite.” -Susanna Clarke, “Piranesi” The narrator is ambiguous, the setting is vast and mysterious, its meanings multi-faceted. Piranesi is a curiously unique and tricky novel to define.
You can see a future stretching ahead of you, but is there anything in it? It was a big encouragement for me when I heard stories of people who who'd managed to achieve something in spite of it, so I hope what I have been able to do with this book goes some way to encourage others too." "I wish I could go back in time and tell the person was who was ill: 'Don't worry, you will be able to write something.' Because it can be so isolating and bleak, and you're not sure that the future holds anything. "It felt like such a personal book as it felt like such an achievement to have even attempted it," she says. In her acceptance speech, she dedicated her award to anyone who suffers from a similar ailment and thinks they will never recover enough to fulfil a dream. Clarke suffers from chronic fatigue, a debilitating condition that has hampered her writing process for nearly two decades. The gap between her first and second novel was caused by illness. Her win means so much because Piranesi was a novel she never thought she would finish.
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