Ariadna

Synopsis of Ariadna

Ariadna is a girl from Vic who is always asking questions because she wants to know. One day, her uncle takes her to Barcelona and she visits the Horta labyrinth. There he tells her the story of her name; that of the thread that Ariadna, daughter of the king of Crete, gave to Theseus, the son of the king of Athens, so that he would not get lost in the labyrinth. Núria Albó writes with a literary and at the same time simple style. That is why she is able to explain things about Greek myths in an understandable and rich way without us realizing it. And at the same time she is able to update the great tradition from which we come. The author puts us in contact with a very old world through a pretext as simple as the name of a current girl: Ariadna, and through a feeling as deep as friendship. And she does it with a knowledge of things and the heartbeats of children so well explained that readers of her age identify with it, because when Núria Albó writes about Ariadna it is because she is thinking of a girl she knows very well.