{"product_id":"2940169817447","title":"The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur","description":"\u003cp\u003eVictor Pelevin, the iconoclastic and wildly interesting contemporary Russian novelist who \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e named one of the Best European Writers Under 35, upends any conventional notions of what mythology must be with his unique take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey have never met, they have been assigned strange 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 dominant force they call Asterisk, a force for good and ill in which the Minotaur is forever present and Theseus is the great unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Helmet of Horror\u003c\/i\u003e is structured according to the way we communicate in the twenty-first century-using the Internet-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 ultimately unattainable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116897550576,"sku":"2940169817447","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169817447_p0.jpg?v=1763695287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169817447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}