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

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?

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"A psychedelic Nabokov for the cyber age." Time Magazine "Pelevin is one of the funniest novelists writing today'" New Statesman "One of the greatest pleasures of Pelevin's writing is the perfectly pitched irony of his narrative voice, which pokes fun at his characters but never abandons sympathy for them…." Guardian"