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Higgins Charlotte. Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths

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Higgins Charlotte. Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths
Jonathan Cape, 2018. — 224 p.
The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne’s ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth – the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster – is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry.
Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted Under Another Sky, tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Velázquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse.
Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one’s way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. Red Thread is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author’s imagination – one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.
Charlotte Higgins is the author of three books on aspects of the ancient world. The most recent, Under Another Sky, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) prize for non-fiction.
Charlotte is the Guardian's chief culture writer, contributing long-form articles and editorials to the paper. She spent a year in 2013-14 working on a series of essays about the state of the BBC, which she adapted into her book This New Noise. She has also written for the New Yorker, Prospect and the New Statesman; and has written and presented documentaries for BBC radio.
Charlotte won the 2010 Classical Association prize, awarded for the person deemed to have done most to bring classics to a wide audience. She is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and has an honorary doctorate from Staffordshire University, in her home region of the Potteries. Her next book, Red Thread, is published in 2018 by Cape. It will be about mazes and labyrinths.
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