'A maze is a house built purposely to confuse men its architecture, prodigal in symmetries, is made to serve that purpose,' Jorge Luis Borges wrote, and this particular labyrinth does confuse a bit, even though, when you look at it from the bell tower of San Giorgio, things become a bit clearer.

Opened in 2011 to mark the e twenty-fifth anniversary of Borges' death, the maze is based on a plan designed by British architect Randoll Coate in the 1980s and originally donated to the Borges Foundation. Let's remain in Venice to explore another type of grid, a sort of chaotic and mesmerising one via the garden-maze dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges located in the rear of the Palladian Cloister and the Cypress Cloister in the former monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141184845 Number of pages: 288 Weight: 213 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm You may also be interested in.In yesterday's post we looked at an architectural project seen during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice suggesting the grid as a solution hinting at inclusion and integration. 'Probably the greatest twentieth-century author never to win the Nobel Prize' 'One of the towering figures of literature in Spanish'

If you enjoyed Labyrinths, you might like Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. He has a reasonable claim, along with Kafka and Joyce, to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. A poet, critic and short story writer, he received numerous awards for his work including the 1961 International Publisher's Prize (shared with Samuel Beckett). Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalising parables to explore the enigma of time, identity and imagination. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', whose infinite shelves contain every book that could ever exist, 'Funes the Memorious' the tale of a man fated never to forget a single detail of his life, and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', in which a French poet makes it his life's work to create an identical copy of Don Quixote. Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited by Donald A. Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most influential and imaginative writers.

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