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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. So mysterious! Loved reading this so much. Want to read it again. ( ) Piranesi begins with a logical and scientific catalogue of a world that is both foreign and familiar, but the experience of reading it is anything but orderly. In fact, I felt a bit untethered throughout most of the mythos—if it can even be considered myth. I began reading it as an allegory but without a firm fix on the foundation. Is it religious (think creation and flood stories) or mythological (think Daedalus’s labyrinth) or philosophical (think Plato’s Cave). Like Piranesi experiences in his research, I definitely felt adrift in this world, tossing amongst the waves, questioning everything and having no idea in which Hall I might wash ashore. I bought this on a whim in Italy because I wanted to read something short and had heard a lot about it, yet no one could ever explain what it was about. I get why they couldn’t now, it is genuinely an amazing book but it’s also an experience. If you say too much, you kind of ruin the experience of going through this literal masterpiece. I devoured this book in two days and could literally start it again right now.
Here it is worth reflecting on the subject of Clarke's overt homage. The historical Piranesi, an 18th-century engraver, is celebrated for his intricate and oppressive visions of imaginary prisons and his veduta ideate, precise renderings of classical edifices set amid fantastic vistas. Goethe, it is said, was so taken with these that he found the real Rome greatly disappointing. Clarke fuses these themes, seducing us with imaginative grandeur only to sweep that vision away, revealing the monstrosities to which we can not only succumb but wholly surrender ourselves. The result is a remarkable feat, not just of craft but of reinvention. Far from seeming burdened by her legacy, the Clarke we encounter here might be an unusually gifted newcomer unacquainted with her namesake's work. If there is a strand of continuity in this elegant and singular novel, it is in its central pre-occupation with the nature of fantasy itself. It remains a potent force, but one that can leave us - like Goethe among the ruins - forever disappointed by what is real. How fantastic to have a bestselling novel with an index right at its heart. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patrón del laberinto, mientras explora los límites de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un hombre llamado El Otro, en una investigación científica para alcanzar El Gran Conocimiento Secreto. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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