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The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy) (2012 original; edició 2015)

de Brian Catling (Autor)

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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called ??a phosphorescent masterpiece? and ??the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.? 
Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast??perhaps endless??forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes  memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. Now, a renegade English soldier aims to be the first human to traverse its expanse. Armed with only a strange bow, he begins his journey, but some fear the consequences of his mission, and a native marksman has been chosen to stop him. Around them swirl a remarkable cast of characters, including a Cyclops raised by robots and a young girl with tragic curiosity, as well as historical figures, such as writer Raymond Roussel and photographer and Edward Muybridge.  While fact and fictional blend, and the hunter will become the hunted, and everyone??s fate hangs in the balance, under t… (més)
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Títol:The Vorrh (The Vorrh Trilogy)
Autors:Brian Catling (Autor)
Informació:Vintage (2015), Edition: First Paperback Edition, 512 pages
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This story revolves around an eldritch forest populated with nightmarish beings. In that, it reminded me a bit of Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, but the resemblance ends there. There are multiple characters with stories that twine around each other like jungle vines. The only narrative I was able to follow completely was that of Ghertrude and Ishmael, and eventually, Cyrene. All the other storylines just didn't hold my attention. I would be reading along and find myself thinking of something else. The language is rich and evocative, the sense of place permeates everything, but the narrative threads are not particularly clear or vibrant. It's like trying to read a spider's web. What the author has done is remarkable, but it isn't a work that invites one to while away an afternoon. I give it four stars for beauty and originality, but be warned, this isn't a typical read. ( )
  TheGalaxyGirl | Feb 4, 2023 |
Uhhhh, I'm still trying to figure this one out. Since finishing it and discussing it, I've sold more copies of this book by saying I hated it than I have sold books I loved to people by telling them how much I loved it. But I didn't hate it... I think?

There are many stories working in tandem in this book and they are all confusing and befuddling and written in different styles based on the character's perspective that we are currently viewing the world through. Told in at least four alternating perspectives, The Vorrh, is the story first and foremost of the forest from which it gets its name and the people in the town right next to it. It bears similarities in equal parts to Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Shelley's Frankenstein. But it goes beyond that to discuss mental illness and paint pictures in the reader's minds of things that are just downright unpleasant and, for some, upsetting. You have to have a strong stomach to undertake serious reading of The Vorrh.

If anyone else has this book figured out, not just enjoyed it, but actually figured out the symbolism and intent, please do enlighten me. ( )
  smorton11 | Oct 29, 2022 |
As dense and grotesque as its eponymous forest, I've never read fantasy quite like this. The prose of the first third is difficult to wade into, requiring a machete to hack your way through the overgrowth. At first it bothered me, the ostentatious self-aware wordiness for the simplest of actions and descriptions. Barely a noun goes by without an adjective (or three) to accompany it; adverbs abound. But it slowly entranced me with startling images and beautiful bits of rich poetry emerging from the tangle over and over again. The underlying myth and slow story are surreal, horrifying, disjointed, but also very original with a captivating atmosphere. The overripe prose calms down considerably by the last third of the book, and the plot moves swifter. In fact, I found it strange how much the style changes from beginning to end.

A reasonable critique would be the lack of strong female characters, who pretty much all depend on men to define themselves throughout. Some may excuse this as a reflection of the late 19th century era in which it is set, but that's not a very good defense considering how intricate and thoughtful all the other elements are. The potential was certainly there to modernize the women more.

Still, I look forward to continuing the trilogy, though I may read another book as a palate cleanser first. ( )
  invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |
As dense and grotesque as its eponymous forest, I've never read fantasy quite like this. The prose of the first third is difficult to wade into, requiring a machete to hack your way through the overgrowth. At first it bothered me, the ostentatious self-aware wordiness for the simplest of actions and descriptions. Barely a noun goes by without an adjective (or three) to accompany it; adverbs abound. But it slowly entranced me with startling images and beautiful bits of rich poetry emerging from the tangle over and over again. The underlying myth and slow story are surreal, horrifying, disjointed, but also very original with a captivating atmosphere. The overripe prose calms down considerably by the last third of the book, and the plot moves swifter. In fact, I found it strange how much the style changes from beginning to end.

A reasonable critique would be the lack of strong female characters, who pretty much all depend on men to define themselves throughout. Some may excuse this as a reflection of the late 19th century era in which it is set, but that's not a very good defense considering how intricate and thoughtful all the other elements are. The potential was certainly there to modernize the women more.

Still, I look forward to continuing the trilogy, though I may read another book as a palate cleanser first. ( )
  invisiblecityzen | Mar 13, 2022 |
This is going to be a tough review. For a start the book doesn't really have a plot so much as locations and characters. Then stuff just happens, there doesn't seem to be a clear endgame which might leave some feeling annoyed. Frankly when i got to the end i was just glad it was over, as it was an exhausting read, but a very memorable one!
There are about 8 different major characters, its set around 1920 i think although it goes back and forth.
Most of the action takes place in africa around the strange forest known as The Vorrh, which has a disturbing effect on anyone who spends too much time in it, and the nearby city of Essenwald, a german colony.
Prepare for magic and crazyness, some steampunk stuff and a lot of difficult writing to decipher. Its a hard read in both its diction and structure.
The story switches between characters about every 5 pages which was REALLY hard for me to deal with, as each character is quite different and i had to constantly slam on the mental breaks and change gear.
Its easier to say who this isn't for than who will like it.
This isn't for those who like a simple read. This isn't for those who need closure. And this is definitely not for anyone with a weak stomach. ( )
  wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
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I cannot think back to those days without recalling, over and over again, how difficult I found it in the beginning to get my breathing to work out right. Though I breathed the right way, whenever I tried to keep my arm and shoulder muscles relaxed while drawing the bow, the muscles of my legs stiffened all the more violently, as though my life depended on a firm foothold and secure stance, and as though, like Antaeus, I had strength from the ground.

EUGEN HERRIGEL, Zen in the Art of Archery
The vitality of the demonic - what is guided in the most literal sense - dies of course with the renunciation of a limitless lebensraum (formation of colonies).

LEO FROBENIUS, Paideuma. Umrisse einer Kultur-und Seelenlehre
Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up. One with his chin propped on his knees, stared at nothing, in an intolerable and appalling manner: his brother phantom rested its forehead, as if overcome with a great weariness, and all about others were scattered in every pose of contorted collapse, as in some picture of a massacre or a pestilence. While I stood horror-struck, one of these creatures rose to his hands and knees, and went off on all-fours towards the river to drink. He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.

JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend,
Nor water out of bitter well make clean;
All evil thing returneth at the end,
Or elseway walketh in our blood unseen.
Whereby the more is sorrow in certaine -
Dayspring mishandled cometh not agen.

RUDYARD KIPLING, "GERTRUDE'S PRAYER"

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The eyes have fallen into disuse in their method of stringing them. Nor is the notch frontally in the middle ends of the bow.

LEO FROBENIUS, "THE BOW" IN "ATLANTIS," The Voice of Africa, VOL. I

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The bow I carry with me, I made of Este.

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Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called ??a phosphorescent masterpiece? and ??the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.? 
Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast??perhaps endless??forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the Vorrh bends time and wipes  memory. Legend has it that the Garden of Eden still exists at its heart. Now, a renegade English soldier aims to be the first human to traverse its expanse. Armed with only a strange bow, he begins his journey, but some fear the consequences of his mission, and a native marksman has been chosen to stop him. Around them swirl a remarkable cast of characters, including a Cyclops raised by robots and a young girl with tragic curiosity, as well as historical figures, such as writer Raymond Roussel and photographer and Edward Muybridge.  While fact and fictional blend, and the hunter will become the hunted, and everyone??s fate hangs in the balance, under t

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