And so, yes, he does return back to it, permanently in this scenario, when he realises that the House despite all its cons, is ultimately the better place. This fragmentation of identities is something I've been tracing from the moment he begins to denounce The Other's search for knowledge. He becomes the Beloved Child of the House and escapes from both these identities. The House is his mental escape and in the final moments, he is neither Piranesi nor Matthew. In this case he may or may not have returned but I believe is that he didn't return to it permanently, just the existence of the House was enough, and he slipped into it sometimes.ī. Clarke cautiously describes it as being about a man who. The House is an accumulation of the knowledge of the Ancient Men and when Piranesi encounters the old man and the two children whom he recognises as statues from the House which show them in a stronger and nobler light, he is hit again by the realisation that the House is infinitely kind and beautiful. Piranesi is indeed brilliantly peculiar, and almost impossible to introduce without spoilers, since it subverts expectations throughout. (view spoiler) [I wrote a long review about everything that occurred to me during this book, but there are two storylines that are very different from each other:Ī.
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