In Search of the Labyrinth explores the enduring cultural legacy of
Minoan Crete by offering an overview of Minoan archaeology and
modern responses to it in literature, the visual and performing
arts, and other cultural practices. The focus is on the twentieth
century, and on responses that involve a clear engagement with the
material culture of Minoan Crete, not just with mythological
narratives in Classical sources, as illustrated by the works of
novelists, poets, avant-garde artists, couturiers, musicians,
philosophers, architects, film directors, and even psychoanalysts -
from Sigmund Freud and Marcel Proust to D.H. Lawrence, Cecil
Day-Lewis, Oswald Spengler, Nikos Kazantzakis, Robert Graves, Andre
Gide, Mary Renault, Christa Wolf, Don DeLillo, Rhea Galanaki, Leon
Bakst, Marc Chagall, Mariano Fortuny, Robert Wise, Martin
Heidegger, Karl Lagerfeld, and Harrison Birtwistle, among many
others. The volume also explores the fascination with things Minoan
in antiquity and in the present millennium: from Minoan-inspired
motifs decorating pottery of the Greek Early Iron Age, to uses of
the Minoans in twenty-first-century music, poetry, fashion, and
other media.
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