The Helmet of Horror |
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| Author:
| Pelevin, Victor |
| Series title: | Text Myth Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921145-03-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2006 |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Labyrinth 1. An intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one s way without a clue; a mazeThey 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...
More Description Labyrinth 1. An intricate structure of intercommunicating passages, through which it is difficult to find one s way without a clue; a mazeThey 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.Victor Pelevin has created a mesmerising world where the surreal and the hyper-real collide. The Helmet of Horroris structured according to the internet exchanges of the twenty-first century, yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical mythology. It is a radical reinvention of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for an age where information is abundant but knowledge is ultimately unattainable.