But sometimes when I was walking in a street and there were people near me, I would imagine I was back in the palace of Charn, or a place very like it and the silence and the solitude calmed me. Fortunately this period didn’t last terribly long. It didn’t matter whether they were taking notice of me or not. Whenever other people were around me I felt intensely uncomfortable and threatened. I think Piranesi’s world (which he calls the House) owes something to Charn.įor a while, around 2010, I had social agoraphobia. I liked the silence and the crumbling architecture and the endless, empty courtyards. Lewis meant this to be an utterly desolate place, literally empty and spiritually empty. They spend a long time wandering through the courtyards and halls of a deserted, ruinous palace. In The Magician’s Nephew one of the worlds the children visit is a very old, dying world called Charn. There are two worlds in that book (neither of them Narnia) which have quite strong connections to Piranesi’s reality. The Narnia book which most influenced Piranesi is The Magician’s Nephew. How much did CS Lewis inspire Piranesi? Can you tell us about some of the other influences for this novel? Author Susanna Clarke(Courtesy Bloomsbury) Like CS Lewis, you conjure a different, parallel world. In the prelude to Piranesi you quote from CS Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew.
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