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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780375701290 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Meet Geryon: sensitive, stupid boy and winged, red monster. This is the story, written in verse, of his flight from an abusive brother and cipher-like mother. It's the story of Geryon coming to love a young man named Herakles, and losing him, then finding consolation in art, behind the lens of a camera. It's the portrait of an artist as winged, red monster coming of age into self-knowledge and acceptance. Both novel and poem, comedic and tragic, Autobiography of Red rewrites Greek myth in the present day. The story is both familiar and unfamiliar. It makes good fiction and even better poetry. Recommended by Tricia, Powells.com
Autobiography of Red is the story of Geryon, a winged red monster slain
by Herakles, as well as a young boy, tormented by his family, who writes his
life story at the age of five. It is both an elaborate re-creation of
ancient Greek myth and a contemporary artist's coming-of-age story, — both
novel and epic poem — whimsical, haunting, and often disturbing.
Autobiography of Red reasserts the simple fact that Anne Carson is one of
the most important and genre-breaking writers and scholars publishing
today.
Recommended by Crystal, Powells.com
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Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent.
By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.
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timkjazz, September 19, 2006 (view all comments by timkjazz)
Having just come to Anne Carson in a big way due to a poet friend who swears by her, I was ready to be amazed. And I was. Her language in re-telling the tale of the slain monster Geryon, her deadpan humor, her references to the classics we read as children and have mostly forgotten, awakened in me a sense of childhood awe at her staggering talent. Fusing poetry, the novel, essay and autobiography seamlessly in 'Autobiography of Red' (which I just finished one hour ago), Carson has leapt to the forefront of poets in my estimation. Alienation, sadness, betrayal, they all hold sway over the winged creature/boy/man Geryon and his struggle to be whole/real. I am a convert. Anne Carson is a blazingly original talent and in this world of predictable poetry what could be higher praise? Read her and delight in the elasticity of literature in its highest form: poetry.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780375701290
- Subtitle:
- A Novel in Verse
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- Single Author *
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Subject:
- Monsters
- Subject:
- Epic poetry, Greek
- Subject:
- Canadian
- Subject:
- Heracles
- Copyright:
- 1998
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
- Series Volume:
- 2280
- Publication Date:
- July 1999
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions:
- 8.34x5.21x.49 in. .41 lbs.
