In the early sections of the novel, Ketterley is trying to obtain arcane knowledge from the labyrinth through ceremonial magic and using the narrator to help him with his rituals. Ketterley renames the amnesiac narrator Piranesi, referencing the Italian artist who created prints of an imaginary prison that resemble the labyrinth. The Other is a name that the narrator gives his abductor after forgetting the name Valentine Ketterley. At the beginning of the novel, he only remembers existing in the House, a sea-soaked collection of grand halls where he calculates the tides, fishes, talks to birds, catalogues the statues, and helps the only other living person he has knowledge of, the Other. This splintering of identity occurred because of his imprisonment in a labyrinth which caused memory loss. The narrator has three names and identities: The Beloved Child of the House, Piranesi, and Matthew Rose Sorensen. Piranesi is written in a series of first-person, dated journal entries.
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