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The maze runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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In the Identity’s Labyrinth
Vintilă Horia’s novel God was born in exile seems to be written from the perspective of a refusal of history, of an opening to imagination and esoterism, to the detriment of a positive valorisation of the facts of the immediate reality. Fiction is thus the one that legitimizes Ovid’s existential adventure, the one that certifies his resistance to an annihilated and aggressive History. In this novel, we are witnesses of a spiritual metamorphosis, of a spiritual catabathic itinerary, whereby the retransmission in the values of esotericism and self, as well as the understanding of the meanings of existence, is the guarantee of sacrificial death and symbolic resurrection.
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The maze runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he's to escape.
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José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night. Monsters, Power, Violence
José Donoso described, in his novel The Obscene Bird of Night (1970), the particular way in which an old and noble family, Azcoitía, gradually decays and eventually dies out. Of course, allusions to the progressive degradation of the contemporary Chilean society, to interpersonal relations in a world living exclusively under the sign of social conventions are the constant concerns of the Chilean author and all these are illustrated through the story of Jerónimo and the Azcoitía family, tentatively written by Humberto Peñaloza. The text of this amazing and great Latin American novel is dominated by two strongly interconnected essential issues: the monster and power. The monster might represent, according to the opinions formulated by Michel Foucault (in his famous study entitled History of Madness), a threat to all the general accepted social conventions, offering to the reader another type of literary discourse, which undermines the pre-existing aesthetic order and reveals some new and original potentialities of contemporary literature itself.
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The scorch trials
Thomas was sure that escape from the maze meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one knew what sort of life they were going back to. The earth is a wasteland.
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Generative Labyrinths Based on Wayana and Aparai Graphic Art
References to labyrinths and their structures and constructions have been part of the imaginary of several cultures and eras. One finds records of mazes in cave paintings, mythologies, art, and world heritage monuments. In the last century, authors like Carroll, Borges, and Eco have woven relations between labyrinths and the narrative structure of fiction. Theorists have described network and navigation states and experiences in hypermedia environments as well as thought structures based on analogies and the study of labyrinths. The symbolic meaning of the labyrinth and its representations is here associated with the symbolic meaning of the graphic art found in the Brazilian native Wayana and Aparai cultures of Pará. Many graphic representations have visual structures and geometries that refer to maze and labyrinth patterns, reason why relationships and the origin of these images were investigated. In our study, we identified that these patterns reflect the history of both cultures. They are inspired by mythical narratives based on labyrinthic spatial and geographical structures and orally transmitted stories; profound observations of the nature, fauna, and flora from an animistic perspective; the transfer of patterns, including patterns found in jaguar, snake, and caterpillar skins, among other animals; the variations and creativity of each artisan. Part of our challenge was the generative programming of labyrinths based on the drawings and graphic modules present in Wayana and Aparai cultures. The programming rigorously followed the known classical labyrinth typologies joined with the original drawings and graphic representations under study.
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The fever code
\"Before the trials, WICKED found Thomas, the perfect boy, to help them build the Maze and find the cure for the Flare, a disease that plagues the world. But the truth of what is really going on is a secret and Thomas must uncover it before time runs out\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The maze : trailer
This is a movie trailer for the 1953 3d horror film titled \"The Maze\" starring Richard Carlson and Veronica Hurst, directed by William Cameron Menzies.
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In the Labyrinth of Slow Time: “A Perturbation in the Deep Stream” and “A Perambulation in the Deep Stream”
This work includes two texts on the themes of gardens and slow time presented in a reading with David Mitchell at the University of St Andrews 2017 conference on Mitchell. These works of ‘truthful fiction’ extend from an ongoing project, The Petriverse of Pierre Jardin. Written in dialogue with The Bone Clocks and featuring a collaboration with Mitchell, they explore the Cretan labyrinth as a cultural and topological motif and recount Jardin’s designing a garden with a meditative labyrinth. The afterword situates the texts in a broader context of bringing the ‘slow’ movement to academic institutions and teaching Mitchell’s work in connection with contemplative pedagogies.
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