The Helmet of Horror

Victor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who The New Yorker named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional notions of what y must be with his unique take on theworld where the surreal and the hyperreal collide, The Hel of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur set in an Internet chat rooe pseudonyms, they inhabit identical rooms that open out onto very different landscapes, and they have entered a dialogue they cannot escape - a discourse defined and destroyed by the Helmet of Horror Its wearer is the doood and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown The Hel to the e co the Internet - yet instilled with the figures and narratives of classical ical uncertainty that radically reinvents this e ultimately unattainable