[Canongate Myths 04] • The Helmet of Horror · the Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur
- Authors
- Pelevin, Victor
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Tags
- contemporary , fantasy , modern , philosophy , horror
- ISBN
- 9781847676269
- Date
- 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.26 MB
- Lang
- en
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?