โ Victor Pelevin;Andrew Bromfield (transl)
๐ Fiction
๐
2009
๐ Canongate Books
๐ English
โ 76 KB
๐ 2 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The helmet of horror: the myth of Theseus and the minotaur
โ Scribed by Victor Pelevin
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Year
- 2010;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781841958897
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Product Description
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 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, radically reinventing the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge ultimately unattainable.
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