Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
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Piranesi: Genre 1 key example

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Piranesi is a 2020 novel by English writer Susanna Clarke. The novel can be broadly categorized as speculative fiction, an umbrella term for fiction subgenres that depart from realism through their use of fantastical, supernatural, or futuristic elements. In Piranesi, the House functions as an alternate world that defies the laws of logic and nature. The House can only be accessed through an occult ritual, its halls are infinite, and it has inexplicable effects on its inhabitants' psyches. The imaginative, magical nature of this realm qualifies the novel as fantasy.