The House of Asterion
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"The House of Asterion" is a short story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in 1947 in the literary magazine Los Anales de Buenos Aires and republished in Borges's sh
The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts, 1885
Borges with Estela Canto in 1945
While the myth is traditionally told from Theseus' perspective, Borges focuses on the Minotaur.
Borges in the 1940s
Piranesi (novel)
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Piranesi is a speculative fiction novel by English author Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, pu
The House of Asterion
…Paul Sierra, depicts the dead Asterion beneath a starry night, a reference to Asterion's suggestion that he is the creator of the stars. The 2020 novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke describes a labyrinth, "the House", in a similar manner to "The House of Asterion". Clarke has said that "Another Borges story that…
The Round Tower, Giovanni Battista Piranesi