The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (The Myths Series) [Pelevin, Victor, Various] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (The Myths Series). The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur Victor Pelevin, Author, Andrew Bromfield, Translator, trans. from the Russian by Andrew . By creating a mesmerizing world where the surreal and the hyperreal collide, The Helmet of Horror is a radical retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur set in an Internet chat room. They have never met, they have been assigned strange pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms that open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue they cannot escape—a /5(20).
The Helmet of Horror. The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur #4. By: Victor Pelevin. Narrated by: full cast. Series: The Myths. Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, Genre Fiction. out of 5 stars. www.doorway.ru: The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (The Myths Series) (): Pelevin, Victor, Various: Books. The classical myth is reinterpreted with black-comic brio in this odd new novel from the internationally acclaimed Russian author (The Life of Insects, , etc.).Marketed as "Mythology" (and part of Canongate's ongoing series "The Myths"), it's a computer-age consideration of the meanings incarnated in the Greek adventurer Theseus, the monstrous (half-man, half-bull) Minotaur and.
Victor Pelevin, bad boy of Russian literature, has written a contemporary retelling of the Theseus and the Minotaur myth. Set in an internet nowhere and consisting of only the comments made by people in a chat room, presumably located in the labyrinth, the book starts out interesting but suffers from a vague ending and a lack of character development. 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. The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (Hardcover) Published October 10th by Knopf Canada. Myths series, Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Victor Pelevin, Andrew Bromfield (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language.
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