Classics in the Maze: Michael Ende’s The Mirror in The Mirro: A Labarynth
Tamara Beneyto explores Michael Ende’s The Mirror in the Mirror: A Labyrinth, a collection of 30 surreal short stories paired with 18 illustrations by his father, Edgar Ende. The stories and images create a dreamlike world that draws on Biblical and Graeco-Roman motifs, especially the myth of the Minoan labyrinth. Beneyto argues that The Mirror in the Mirror revives the ancient Minoan myth in a meaningful literary form, preserving its relevance by embedding it in a modern symbolic narrative rather than relegating it to academic obscurity.