
The Helmet Of Horror
Victor Pelevin(Author)
Canongate Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-84195-889-7 (ISBN)
Description
When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?
Reviews / Votes
A brilliant post-modern, eclectic vision of myth, mind and meaning. And of the human dilemma and its horns, ancient and modern. * * The Times * * It presents ideas that the wider European mind finds useful, and it is sharp, funny and, what's the word, numinous. * * Sunday Times * * Pelevin is a highly inventive writer with a sharp, jaundiced eye and an anarchic sensibility. * * Guardian * * For a mind-expanding, surreally funny experience, it's worth getting lost here. * * Scotland on Sunday * *More details
Series
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
215 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84195-889-7 (9781841958897)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
06/2009
Canongate Books
€12.49
Available for download
Persons
Born in Moscow, Victor Pelevin has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Open City and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the 'Best European Writers Under 35' and by the Observer as one of the '21 Writers for the 21st Century'. His novel, Numbers, won the Russian Grigoriev Prize 2004.