The Helmet Of Horror (Myths, #4) (Books That Changed the World) (Myth)

by Victor Pelevin

Andrew Bromfield (Translator)

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 3 shelved
Book cover for The Helmet Of Horror

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Labyrinth 1 is an intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one's way without a clue; a maze. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms, which open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered into a dialogue, which they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destroyed by the "Helmet of Horror". Its wearer is the dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown. Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide. "The Helmet of Horror" is structured according to the Internet exchanges of the twenty-first century, yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology. It is a labyrinthine examination of epistemological uncertainty that radically reinvents the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge is ultimately unattainable.
  • ISBN10 1841957054
  • ISBN13 9781841957050
  • Publish Date 2 March 2006
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 2 May 2014
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Canongate Books
  • Edition Main
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English