The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur

Pelevin, Victor; Bromfield, Andrew (Transl.)

ISBN 10: 1841957054 / ISBN 13: 9781841957050

Published by Canongate, Edinburgh, 2006

About this Item

First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, moderate bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, mild wear to the cover edges, and faint rubbing to the covers. Overall, this is a solid, tight and clean, Very Good copy in a like, unclipped dust jacket, which has bumps with light creasing to the spine ends and corners, short tears to the corners, and faint rubbing with a hint of edge wear to the covers. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # 206691

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
• Publisher: Canongate, Edinburgh
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1841957054
• ISBN 13: 9781841957050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mythology
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Labyrinth 1 is 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 is ultimately unattainable.

About the Author

VICTOR PELEVIN has established a reputation as one of the most interesting of the younger generation of Russian writers. He has degrees from Moscow's Gorky Institute of Literature and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and Open City. His previous novels include The Victor Clay Machine and The Life of Insects. ANDREW BROMFIELD is a regular translator from the Russian, and has translated works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich and Irina Denezhkina, as well as other titles by Victor Pelevin.