7/1/2023 0 Comments The borges labyrinth![]() This collection includes a number of stories on this theme, including “The Library of Babel,” a story in which the universe is an infinite library, just room after hexagonal room, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” which imagines a novel as temporal labyrinth, “The House of Asterion,” a retelling of the myth of the Minotaur that transposes the labyrinth into a house, and-in proper labyrinthian form-the list goes on and on. ![]() At any rate, as Borges is inextricable from the notion of the labyrinth-wandering within it forever, you might even say-here are ten works of labyrinthine literature to celebrate his life and works.īorges is king of the labyrinth, though he would likely not devour any errant entrants. At the demand of Minos, fourteen Athenian youths would periodically be sacrificed into the labyrinth-forced to wander until caught and eaten by the Minotaur-until the creature was finally killed by Theseus. In Greek mythology, of course, the labyrinth was an enormous maze built by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete in order to contain the Minotaur, who lived at the center. One of Borges’s signature themes is the labyrinth (others include doubling, mirrors, infinite spaces, imaginary texts, etc.) and many of his works engage with the maze as structure, form, or topic. ![]() Jorge Luis Borges-short story writer, poet, translator and luminous mind, died 31 years ago today, at the age of 86. ![]()
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