The Helmet of Horror

副标题: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur (Myths, The)

ISBN: 9781841959122

作者: Victor Pelevin

出版社: Canongate U.S.

出版年: 2007-04-10

页数: 274

定价: USD 13.00

装帧: Paperback

译者: Andrew Bromfield

内容简介

A cyber-age retelling of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur from one of Russia's most exciting young writers.Labyrinth (noun): 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 seems ultimately unattainable.