JOANNA HUANG
The Gospel of Loki
The Gospel of Loki is a novel by Joanne M. Harris which retells the key stories in Norse myths by Loki’s first-person account. From the anti-hero point of view, the book fills up the missing details in the original text, re-imagines the sophisticated relation, suspicion and the secret manipulation between the gods. The author overturns the fatalistic narrative the Ragnarok into an elaborate conspiracy led by Gullveig-Heid, who is depicted as a powerful goddess before Odin’s regime while absent from most of the surviving account of Norse myths.
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We naturally relates ‘death’ with those aggressively negative imagery that trigger the deepest fear of a living organism. However, from another perspective, death is just an eternal sleep, probably with an endless dream. It is a soft and tranquil stagnation, arousing drowsiness more than melancholia.This is Hel under the author’s portrayal: dreamy, sleepy, also mentally concerning.
