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The House is not a setting; it is a character. It provides for Piranesi (food, shelter, beauty) and has a will or pattern. It is beautiful, indifferent, and mysterious. This reflects a mystical worldview where nature/cosmos is sacred rather than inert.

The novel functions as a philosophical thriller and detective story as the reader begins to see through Piranesi's unreliable, "innocent" narration: Piranesi

An Italian artist, architect, and archaeologist, Piranesi is best known for his haunting, highly detailed etchings of Rome and his fictional Carceri d’Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons). The House is not a setting; it is a character