Voice Of The Fire
by Alan Moore
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Author: Alan MooreDesigner: Chip Kidd
Illustrator: Jose Villarrubia
Introduction: Neil Gaiman
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-07
ISBN: 1891830449
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
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Book Review: A Shamanic Journey in Northampton
Summary: 4 Stars
In ancient times, the keeper of the fire in human prehistoric tribes was the figure of the shaman. He or she channeled the powers of the spirits, and the Land, and of the human collective unconsciousness into lore that his or her people could understand -- mapping out a landscape in order to properly perceive, and therefore survive the world around them. As such, the shamanic figure was of necessity a storyteller.
As others have said, Voice of the Fire -- the essence of which the metaphorical storyteller gets his or her stories is not an easy journey, or vision-quest in any sense of the word. You, as the audience, have to follow the path set for you. It begins in prehistoric times from first-person point of view of a developmentally challenged young man who perceives language and therefore reality differently from those around him; to a cunning and cruel Bronze Age woman; to the time of Roman Occupation of Britain, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the witch-trials of the 1700s, Victorian times, a crime in the 1950s, and finally the more present day of 1995.
All of this takes place in England's Northampton. And as you follow the path from the prehistoric to the modern, in some ways the journey becomes easier and in other ways more difficult. The shaman, or elements of the shamanic are always ever-present, as is the mythology and history of the land. You can trace the pattern of history, and psycho-geography -- of the way the generations of people left their psychic mark on the land around them just as you can follow the tattoo paintings on a shaman's flesh. The beginning is full of almost pure metaphor and the core ideas are introduced by the narrator, becoming more direct, yet somewhat diluted in time.
As writer, as storyteller, as shaman in the intermediary sense of the word, Alan Moore channels the spirits of those that came before him, and that of the Land itself. It is the mythopoeic odyssey of people, and places. It is hard to follow, and it is unique. The reader must travel through the spiritual landscape, in a personal dream quest not unlike those of the characters around them. There is no other way. It is the only way.
Summary of Voice Of The Fire
In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over a span of six thousand years. Each interconnected tale traces a path in a journey of discovery of the secrets of the land. In the tradition of Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, Schwob's Imaginary Lives and Borges' A Universal History of Infamy, Moore travels through history blending truth and conjecture, in a novel that is dazzling, moving, sometimes tragic, but always mesmerizing. This edition presents Voice of the Fire for the first time in hardcover format, with full color illustrations by Jose Villarrubia.General Books
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