Susanna clarke book5/18/2023 Clarke’s new novel, Piranesi, stands as a counterpart to these things and much more the book is scarcely 200 pages long, its title character spends most of the novel inside the confines of one (admittedly marvelous) house, and although he meticulously keeps a journal, he is largely a stranger to himself and his world, and that world has few visitors, and those visitors are mysteries themselves.īoth books are escapes and reflections, but Piranesi is a far more fitting sideways commentary on our current world, the perfect quarantine novel: confined to its home, always noticing new things, suspicious of visitors, fracturing on the edge of sanity. The characters in Susanna Clarke’s enormously popular 2004 debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell virtually all suffered in some way or other from an obnoxious surfeit of knowledge, and over the course of 800 pages they swapped notes and disputations on a canvas as broad as Europe.
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