This is fortunate, because Piranesi is a little slow to start, with a lot of descriptions of the House and the various floods, statuary, and bird life inside the House.
Piranesi (his name isn’t Piranesi) is extremely intelligent yet very innocent, and all you can think from very early on is “ack I want to protect this sweet marshmallow from his machinations, whatever they may be.” What is similar is the fact that if you’re not enjoying the writing by about 10% of the way through the book, the book is probably not for you and you can move on to other pursuits. Norrell, because Susanna Clarke is a beautiful genius and I’ll fight you. The writing style of Piranesi isn’t tremendously similar to the writing style of Jonathan Strange and Mr. And this year she wrote Piranesi, a pithy novel of a mere 272 pages about a man who lives alone (?) in an endless House comprising statues and floods and rotting things, and I really loved it. Which proves magical thinking doesn’t work.Īnyway, as you remember, Susanna Clarke wrote Jonathan Strange and Mr. What gets you Piranesi in September 2020 (if magical thinking were real) would be keeping the faith in spite of all the odds. I could not ask for more.” And that’s not the kind of attitude which (if magical thinking were real) gets you Piranesi in September 2020. In the last few years, I had said out loud to more than one person, “Susanna Clarke will only ever write one novel.” I had said, “But that’s okay! She has already given us perfection.
However, had I not given up magical thinking in 2019, I would have had to admit that it is not real when it was announced that Susanna Clarke had a new book coming out, because I admit that I have not kept the faith. What I’m saying is, I am safe from the minefield of magical thinking that is 2020. I’m coming up all mine-sniffing animals, and I don’t want my very successful self-administered cognitive behavioral therapy to feel in any way connected with exploding rats or whatever. Luckily I have a - actually, I have lost control of this metaphor and do not know what sort of a thing you’d use to protect against a minefield. As I may have mentioned twenty-two thousand times, I gave up magical thinking in 2019, and this was very smart of me because 2020 turned out to be a magical thinking minefield.
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