Submitted by zeroschiuma t3_yhebqr in books
Hello!
A few weeks ago I posted this rec request in another subreddit and someone was kind enough to introduce me to Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - which I read front to end today in one sitting and found absolutely astonishing.
I can't recommend it enough.
Risking to be quoted on r/BrandNewSentence, it's like House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and The People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara made a British book-baby together.
There's a labirinth-house people get lost into, phisically and metaphorically, and the same mythology of reference as HoL - although executed in a much more cohesive, and appealing way.
And there's the mad scientist and his revolutionary, non-conventional knowledge, just like in Yanagihatra's novel.
But I feel like Piranesi accomplished something its parents could only dream abolut, which is a proper metaphysical architecture (pun very much intended) and a more in-depth collation of its Weltanschauung.
The reference to the episode 3x10 of Doctor Who was not lost on me either.
If you haven't yet, I advise you not to wait any longer and read this incredible novel.
In case you have already, what do you think? Wasn't it awesome?