![]() He explores the interiors of this pile, aimlessly and without any determination to arrive anywhere. ![]() Piranesi does not know who built the House or how he himself came to be there or what he will do amongst its halls forevermore. Your defining characteristic becomes a terrifying absence of curiosity. You accept every absurdity that you experience without any sense of scandal occurring to you. ![]() Rather, it is more that you are stripped of your normal personality whilst you are walking in a dream and transformed into an alien version of yourself. ![]() Nonetheless, the most frightening thing about any dream is never actually its contents. There is seemingly no door to the outside world. The halls of the House proliferate inexhaustibly, like the never-ending interiors within a dream, and the face of the House only ever looks in upon these interiors. These walls “are lined with marble Statues, hundreds upon hundreds of them, Tier upon Tier, rising into the distant heights.” “Tides” wash through the House, battering the statues, and sometimes the air will be jumpy with the tumbling of seagulls or crows. The House in Susanna Clarke’s second novel Piranesi is a dream palace and dream logic is the only law that has any standing within its walls. The primary members of this group are Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, Jay McInerney, and Tama Janowitz.Any dream is a sequence of baffling and disquieting events, with all of them colluding in the silent conspiracy of dream logic. In addition to her association with dark academia, Tartt is also connected to the “Literary Brat Pack.” The Literary Brat Pack is made up of several writers on the East Coast who became popular in the late 1980s. In particular, Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Homer’s Odyssey are important influences on and references for Tartt. Like many works that are part of the dark academia canon, The Secret History is inspired by, and makes reference to, a number of Greek epics and tragedies. Rio’s If We Were Villains and Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi also fall into this subgenre. Retroactively, this label has been used to describe Gothic and Romantic works such as Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and the poetry of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Dark academia is a literary subgenre that applies themes and stylings of classical Greek and Gothic arts and architectures to modern college campuses-in some ways, it can be thought of as a contemporary rebranding of Gothic literature. The Secret History is a foundational work for the “dark academia” aesthetic. The Goldfinch won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was eventually adapted into a film in 2019. Then, in 2013, Tartt published The Goldfinch, which is now her best-known and most critically acclaimed novel. After The Little Friend’s publication, another decade went by without a new Tartt novel. Though it is the least popular and acclaimed of Tartt’s novels, The Little Friend was still very successful and well-liked. Eventually, it arrived in 2002 with the title The Little Friend. However, the follow-up to The Secret History wouldn’t come for another 10 years. Tartt was hailed as a literary genius and her next book was eagerly awaited. The Secret History was finally published in 1992 to rave reviews, and it turned Tartt into a literary celebrity. After college, Tartt split her time between Boston and New York while working on the novel that would eventually become The Secret History. Tartt’s peer group at Bennington is now legendary, as it consisted of fellow authors Johnathan Lethem, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jill Eisenstadt. In 1981, Tartt began attending the University of Mississippi before transferring to Bennington College in 1982. Tartt started writing at the age of five and had already published a poem in The Mississippi Review by age 13. Both of Tartt’s parents were voracious readers and instilled in her a lifelong love for books and writing. Donna Tartt was born and raised in Mississippi, the daughter of a musician and a secretary.
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