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Piranesi

280 statements
54 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

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Piranesi	comment	To quote the publisherâ€™s description:Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has.In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims?Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.Piranesi is a novel by Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.Being a capital-O Ontological Mystery as well as rather short, itâ€™s better to approach this novel with as little knowledge as possible. Beware unmarked spoilers.
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Piranesi / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Piranesi / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Piranesi is established as one from the start, as he claims that the House is the entire world, with only 16 people existing in it. However he is able to recognise depictions of gorillas, kings, fauns etc. among the House's statues, when those things clearly do not exist within the House.
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Piranesi / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
Piranesi / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: Piranesi creates his own, based on notable events in The House. The book takes place during The Year the Albatross Came to the South-Western Halls.
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Piranesi / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Piranesi / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The Other believes that some sort of magical power exists in the House but Piranesi gradually starts to doubt this. Whether or not he's right is never revealed.
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Piranesi / int_3cb6468e	type	Bad Liar
Piranesi / int_3cb6468e	comment	Bad Liar: The Other. To the reader it is obvious when he is attempting to mislead Piranesi, but the latter is too trusting to notice.
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Piranesi / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Piranesi / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The man who was Piranesi returns to the normal world and builds a new identity, although he never regains his memories and identity as Sorensen. He meets Sorensen's family and friends who are overjoyed to have him back. He has formed a close friendship with Raphael, and they both visit the House (fulfilling his dreams of touring it with 16), though the man who was Piranesi is unsure whether Raphael will find the peace she seeks in the House or if she'll be able to resist being lost in it. The man who was Piranesi visits James Ritter and helps him visit the House, and considers returning there permanently with him. Arne-Sayles pretty much gets away with his crimes and Ketterley dies. In the final chapter though the narrator finds two sources of serenity and joy: in winter snow London can resemble the House, and the statues of the House can be glorious reflections of living people.
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Piranesi / int_41ba335a	type	Amnesiac Hero
Piranesi / int_41ba335a	comment	Amnesiac Hero: Piranesi doesnâ€™t remember anything except living in the House. Heâ€™s pretty sure Piranesi isnâ€™t his actual name, but canâ€™t recall what it is. The Other also comments about him losing time and forgetting things.
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Piranesi / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Piranesi / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Raphael is a respected, heroic and intelligent police officer. However she appears to be disillusioned with the real world and finds it difficult to both relate with and like other people, and is drawn to the House (perhaps too much) for its solitude and lack of corruption by others.
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Piranesi / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Piranesi / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: 16 aka Raphael, a heroic police officer who comes to the House to rescue Sorenson, and wishes she could bring justice for the dead in the House.
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Piranesi / int_4e887103	type	The Aloner
Piranesi / int_4e887103	comment	The Aloner: Piranesi is all alone in The House, except for the Otherâ€™s bi-weekly visits. The prospect of living like this permanently when he knows there are other people out there is what ultimately convinces him to leave.
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Piranesi / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Piranesi / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Arne-Sayles is either this or Faux Affably Evil. He bears Piranesi no actual malice (seemingly viewing him with a detached sense of amused sociopathic indifference) but has done everything the Other is currently doing to Piranesi to others and probably worse in the past.
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Piranesi / int_560a978f	type	Amnesiacs are Innocent
Piranesi / int_560a978f	comment	Amnesiacs are Innocent: Piranesiâ€™s childlike innocence is very much tied to his amnesia. Invoked by Arne-Sayles, who calls his previous identity as Sorensen an â€œarrogant little shitâ€� but finds Piranesi charming. Once Piranesi discovers what Ketterly has done to him, he enters a bitter rage which is shocking after his previous serene narration.
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Piranesi / int_581f6468	type	Hero of Another Story
Piranesi / int_581f6468	comment	Hero of Another Story: The story could easily have been told from Sarah Raphaelâ€™s POV as a straight-up supernatural mystery instead of an Ontological Mystery.
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Piranesi / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Piranesi / int_586624e5	comment	Genius Loci: Piranesi believes the House is sentient, that it loves him and cares for him and periodically sends him revelations of hidden truths and the future. We never find out if he's right or if this is a symptom of his insanity.
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Piranesi / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Piranesi / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Ketterley asks Sorensen whether he told anyone else about coming to Ketterleyâ€™s house. Sorensen, in a sudden lapse of common sense, says no.
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Piranesi / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
Piranesi / int_727a65e0	comment	Gaslighting: The Other tells Piranesi that he forgets things, loses time, and might become unstable as a way to manipulate him and keep him obedient, as well as to make sure he doesn't talk to Raphael/16.
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Piranesi / int_74ed89b2	type	Oracular Head
Piranesi / int_74ed89b2	comment	Oracular Head: Addedomarus in the backstory.
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Piranesi / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Piranesi / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Downplayed. The ending is mostly clear cut, but on the last two pages the narrator realizes some of the statues match real people he sees in the city. The story ends right after this revelation so what it means isn't explained in any way.
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Piranesi / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Piranesi / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: After coming back to the real world, the narrator still doesnâ€™t see himself as Matthew Rose Sorensen, although he no longer quite identifies with the Piranesi persona either. Slightly subverted in that he doesnâ€™t think Sorensen is dead, only â€œsleepingâ€�.
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Piranesi / int_8c00901a	type	Creepy Good
Piranesi / int_8c00901a	comment	Creepy Good: Piranesi is a kind, innocent man, but a lot of his habits and rituals may seem off-putting if not downright creepy (especially anything to do with the dead bodies in the House).
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Piranesi / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Piranesi / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Other (real name Valentine Andrew Ketterley), who imprisoned Piranesi in the House. Raphael suspects he may have attempted to imprison other potential victims too.
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Piranesi / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Piranesi / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: Laurence Arne-Sayles aka the Prophet, a sociopathic cult leader who taught Ketterley all he knew, and almost certainly murdered at least one of the bodies Piranesi tends to. Interestingly, while he's almost certainly a worse person than Ketterly he is not at all hostile to Piranesi, and in fact he gives Raphael the information needed to rescue Piranesi from the House.
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Piranesi / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Piranesi / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The House is a relatively benevolent version. Itâ€™s a seemingly infinite labyrinth of halls and statues which has an internal ocean and its own climate, and prolonged stays produce confusion, distress and eventually amnesia (with memories being replaced with knowledge of The House itself). However, itâ€™s not evil in any way, and holds great beauty and wisdom for those open to see them. The statues in particular are a mystery, with no obvious sculptor. Piranesi says when talking to the Prophet that they may be shaped by thoughts that flow out of the real world alongside magic, which the Prophet says may well be true. Later Piranesi discovers that at least two statues have their faces modelled on real people.
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Piranesi / int_9cad69bf	type	Depraved Homosexual
Piranesi / int_9cad69bf	comment	Depraved Homosexual: Laurence Arne-Sayles, and proud of it.
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Piranesi / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Piranesi / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: 16. The Other deliberately hid this to prevent Piranesi's romantic streak making him partial to 16.
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Piranesi / int_a2836be5	type	Identity Amnesia
Piranesi / int_a2836be5	comment	Identity Amnesia: "Piranesi" isn't the protagonist's name, but it's what his friend (and the only other person in the world) calls him. He doesn't know his actual name because living in the House erodes your memory and sanity.
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Piranesi / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Piranesi / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Piranesi brings ritual offerings to the dead of the house and tries to reassure them in times of trouble. He does the same for Ketterley, even after everything. Tending to them is one of the reasons Piranesi considers staying in the House.
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Piranesi / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Piranesi / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Arne-Sayles was in prison for a few years, but he seemed to quite enjoy it. The real extent of his crimes canâ€™t be proven and he gets to live the rest of his life comfortably.
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Piranesi / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Piranesi / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Piranesi falls in love with 16 just from seeing her at night and realizing she is a woman. To be fair, she is the only woman in his world at that point.
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Piranesi / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Piranesi / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Real-world names and dates, such as "Battersea" or the way Piranesi's earliest journals are marked 2011-2012, are an obvious clue to the reader that the real world does exist somewhere, but Piranesi has no idea what they mean and thinks they're nonsense. Likewise, it will be clear to the reader much earlier than it's clear to Piranesi that the Other is not trustworthy or a friend.
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Piranesi / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Piranesi / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Piranesi tries to warn the Other to run, but he's too busy trying to kill Raphael to listen.
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Piranesi / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Piranesi / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The novel is, in a way, a log of Piranesi's life. Things don't turn out apocalyptically for him in the end, though. Moreover, in the course of the story, he discovers older journal material, which leads up to a personal disaster for the writer.
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Piranesi / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Piranesi / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: The attitude of Arne-Sayles and Ketterley, to various degrees.
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Piranesi / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Piranesi / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: A subversion. The Other refers to the narrator as Piranesi, yet the narrator is sure that's not his real name.
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Piranesi / int_c6aa9afc	type	First-Person Perspective
Piranesi / int_c6aa9afc	comment	First-Person Perspective: The story is told by Piranesi. Given his situation, this doesn't lead to the reader learning too much...
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Piranesi / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Piranesi / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are numerous shout-outs to The Chronicles of Narnia, notably including the faun statue which makes Piranesi dream about a faun talking to a little girl in a snowy forest. The book also opens in a quote from â€œThe Magicianâ€™s Nephewâ€�, and the Other's real family name, Ketterley, is the same as the eponymous magician's, whom he greatly resembles.. The narration even refers to them as â€œa very old Dorsetshire familyâ€�, which is a direct quote from The Magicianâ€™s Nephew. Eventually the plot is revealed to have a similar premise to the exploitation of Digory Kirke in the beginning of The Magicianâ€™s Nephew. The protagonist shares a name with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an 18th-century Italian artist who created etchings of fantastic, labyrinthine prisons. This is also an in-universe shout-out. The basic premise resembles "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges (down to the fact that as far as Piranesi knows, there are or were 14 other people in the world besides him). Word of God says this was not deliberate, though. One of the characters wrote an article called "Timey-Wimey: Steven Moffat, Blink and J. W. Dunne's theories of Time".
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Piranesi / int_c8f98eb5	type	Ontological Mystery
Piranesi / int_c8f98eb5	comment	Ontological Mystery: What is the House and how did Piranesi come to be there? This might be a Quest for Identity, except that Piranesi doesn't seem too worried about his own identity at least until he discovers what it is.
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Piranesi / int_ca22ca46	type	Madwoman in the Attic
Piranesi / int_ca22ca46	comment	Madwoman in the Attic: James Ritter got this treatment from Arne-Sayles for about two years, after losing his mind in the House.
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Piranesi / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Piranesi / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Piranesi. His definition of Reason is definitely not the standard one.
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Piranesi / int_cad57f30	type	The Nameless
Piranesi / int_cad57f30	comment	The Nameless: The narrator is called Piranesi by the Other, but he suspects that's not his real name. He calls himself a Child of the House. After regaining his memories the narrator still doesn't reclaim the identity of Sorenson, and remembers Piranesi as a different person, creating a third nameless personality.
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Piranesi / int_d6de6609	type	In Harmony with Nature
Piranesi / int_d6de6609	comment	In Harmony with Nature: Piranesi lives in harmony with the ecological system of The House, subsisting on fish and seaweed and giving back where he can. At one point he helps a couple of albatrosses build a nest.
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Piranesi / int_d73f1bba	type	Enlightenment Superpowers
Piranesi / int_d73f1bba	comment	Enlightenment Superpowers: What the Other is looking for, although he may be missing something fundamental about how it works. The ability to come into the House at will also works like that. Piranesi develops the ability to correctly interpret omens and signs that the House gives him as his memories of the Other World are replaced with his knowledge of the House.
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Piranesi / int_d91d0365	type	The Magic Goes Away
Piranesi / int_d91d0365	comment	The Magic Goes Away: What Arne-Sayles believes is happening since humankind developed a rational mode of thinking. His search for other worlds is partially motivated by trying to find where the magic goes.
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Piranesi / int_d934b1c7	type	Small, Secluded World
Piranesi / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: The House. Itâ€™s a sort of Pocket Dimension created by magic flowing out of our world.
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Piranesi / int_db8ace03	type	Epiphanic Prison
Piranesi / int_db8ace03	comment	Epiphanic Prison: Piranesi is imprisoned in the House and doesn't realize it. To escape, he must remember who he is and why he's there.
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Piranesi / int_df24d8fa	type	Platonic Cave
Piranesi / int_df24d8fa	comment	Platonic Cave: Played With. A common interpretation of the House is that it is this. Piranesi is aware of concepts like â€œUniversityâ€� because he has seen statues of related things, but he is unaware of the true reality of them in the outside world. However, it is Played With in that the House is a mixture of the concepts of the Platonic Cave AND the Platonic Ideal; the Statues in the House might not be the real thing, but they are the idealized, beautiful, and eternal versions of the real things. The house may â€œjustâ€� be a reflection of the real world, but as Piranesi says, it has its own inherent value.
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Piranesi / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Piranesi / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Arne-Sayles ran a low-key, rather realistic one in the form of his circle of students. Anyone who disagreed with him would be verbally demolished, and he forced his most devoted and talented student to act as his servant and eventually to cut off her parents, thus destroying her only other close relationship essentially just because he could.
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Piranesi / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Piranesi / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: Time and corrosion have taken their toll on Piranesiâ€™s clothing. He repairs what he can, but his general appearance is somewhat disheveled. He also walks barefoot until the Other brings him new shoes.
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Piranesi	hasFeature	Piranesi / int_e61d9a3c
Piranesi / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Piranesi / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Piranesi is extremely precise and literal-minded, which sometimes causes him problems when trying to interpret Ketterley's instructions. Examples include not telling Ketterley about meeting Arne-Sayles (because Ketterley's instructions relate only to future meetings, not previous ones), and Piranesi not knowing how to react to a written message from 16 (because Ketterley only told him not to "speak" with her).
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Piranesi / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Piranesi / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: 16, so named since to the best of Piranesiâ€™s knowledge, they are the sixteenth person that exists in the world.
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Piranesi / int_ea6f361f	featureConfidence	1.0
Piranesi	hasFeature	Piranesi / int_ea6f361f
Piranesi / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Piranesi / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Two instances: The Other, despite being Piranesi's only "friend", which is an early clue that Piranesi's view of the world is misguided. Also the Prophet/Arne-Sayles, who is almost certainly a worse person than the Other.
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Piranesi / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
Piranesi / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: The Prophet, AKA Laurence Arne-Sayles.
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Piranesi	hasFeature	Piranesi / int_eb9afb9d
Piranesi / int_ed3a5a30	type	Big Labyrinthine Building
Piranesi / int_ed3a5a30	comment	Big Labyrinthine Building: The "House" where Piranesi lives is a surreal, endless series of chambers, each one containing a wild variety of flawlessly sculpted marble statues of humans, animals and mythological figures. The lower levels are flooded and periodically send tides surging up through the higher levels. The uppermost levels are filled with clouds. Piranesi has lived there for years and has only explored a tiny fraction of it, and the building may actually be infinite.
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Piranesi / int_f4061d83	type	Capital Letters Are Magic
Piranesi / int_f4061d83	comment	Capital Letters Are Magic: Played with. Piranesi uses capital letters very liberally, but itâ€™s unclear if he actually knows how or if heâ€™s just throwing them around. It could be a reflection of his animistic interpretation of and relationship to the House â€” everything is alive, everything is significant, so everything is named. After he comes back to the real world, his narration no longer features so many of them.
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Piranesi	hasFeature	Amnesiac Hero / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Amnesiacs are Innocent / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Cult / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Evil Old Folks / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Fisher Kingdom / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Identity Amnesia / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Literature of the 2020s / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Ontological Mystery / int_529c5142
Piranesi	hasFeature	Oracular Head / int_529c5142

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