This is the final podcast episode from before Devil’s Library existed as a separate thing. In this one, my Satanic sibling Ligeia and I talk about Susanna Clarke’s prize winning fantasy novel, Piranesi - Ligeia had never read any Clarke before and I think she fell in love with this a bit :)
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This book is so good. At first I thought the main character was autistic, but thinking back on it now I think that it just might be how any scientist would approach his situation.
Fascinating book. I found out about it when it popped up in a Folio Society catalog. I have spent ENTIRELY too much money with them, so I get mailers on a regular basis.
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/piranesi
And I’m like “That looks fascinating, but I don’t know if it’s $90 worth of fascinating…”
So I picked up a normal copy from Powell’s.
Basic premise is this:
You know the Allegory of the Cave?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Piranesi is trapped is a philosophical construct like that, he’s been in it so long, he no longer has a concept of reality, only his existence here. He’s lived it, he’s mapped it, and as the book goes on he comes to understand and escape it.
It’s a really good read, but maybe a little abstract for a lot of people.
