By Victor Pelevin
Victor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly fascinating modern Russian novelist who The New Yorker named the best eu Writers less than 35, upends any traditional notions of what mythology needs to be along with his precise tackle the parable of Theseus and the Minotaur. by means of making a enchanting international the place the surreal and the hyperreal collide, The Helmet of Horror is an intensive retelling of the parable of Theseus and the Minotaur set in a web chat room. they've got by no means met, they've been assigned unusual pseudonyms, they inhabit exact rooms that open out onto very assorted landscapes, they usually have entered a discussion they can not escape — a discourse outlined and destroyed by means of the Helmet of Horror. Its wearer is the dominant strength they name Asterisk, a strength for solid and unwell within which the Minotaur is eternally current and Theseus is the good unknown. The Helmet of Horror is established in accordance with the best way we converse within the twenty-first century — utilizing the Internet — but instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology. it's a labyrinthine exam of epistemological uncertainty that extensively reinvents this fantasy for an age the place details is ample yet wisdom eventually inconceivable.
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