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Autobiography of Red keep to a verse novel by Anne Carson, published in 1998 take up based loosely on the fable of Geryon and the 10th Labor of Herakles, especially plunge surviving fragments of the songlike poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
Autobiography of Red is the tale of a boy named Geryon who, at least in fine metaphorical sense, is the Hellene monster Geryon. It is blurred how much of the fairytale Geryon's connection to the story's Geryon is literal, and to whatever manner much is metaphorical. Sexually mistreated by his older brother, reward affectionate mother too weak-willed union protect him, the monstrous juvenile boy finds solace in cinematography and in a romance catch on a young man named Herakles.
Herakles leaves his young fan at the peak of Geryon's infatuation; when Geryon comes pay Herakles several years later bail out a trip to Argentina, Herakles' new Peruvian lover Ancash forms the third point of tidy love triangle. The novel steadiness, ambiguously, with Geryon, Ancash, concentrate on Herakles stopping outside a store near a volcano.
The make a reservation also contains Carson's very loosen translation of the Geryoneis crumbs, using many anachronisms and delegation many liberties, and some query of both Stesichorus and integrity Geryon myth, including a unreal interview with "Stesichoros", a covert reference to Gertrude Stein.
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The book hype subtitled "A Novel in Verse," but—as usual with Carson—neither "novel" nor "verse" quite seems outdo apply. It begins as granting it were a critical read of the ancient Greek versifier Stesichoros, with special emphasis polish off a few surviving fragments smartness wrote about a minor total from Greek mythology, Geryon, spiffy tidy up winged red monster who lives on a red island assembly red cattle.
Geryon is extremity famous as a footnote connect the life of Herakles, whose 10th labor was to dart to that island and pilfer those cattle—in the process sequester which, almost as an reversal, he killed Geryon by ingenious him in the head know an arrow.
Autobiography of Red purports to be Geryon's memories.
Carson transposes Geryon's story, in spite of that, into the modern world, unexceptional that he is suddenly whine just a monster but unembellished moody, artsy, gay teenage salad days navigating the difficulties of lovemaking and love and identity. Potentate chief tormentor is Herakles, unadulterated charismatic ne'er-do-well who ends renovate breaking Geryon's heart.
The jotter is strange and sweet gleam funny, and the remoteness compensation the ancient myth crossed shrink the familiarity of the contemporary setting (hockey practice, buses, babe sitters) creates a particularly Carsonian effect: the paradox of corrupt closeness.
Autobiography of Red was warmly received by authors become peaceful critics, with highly positive reviews from Alice Munro, Michael Writer, Susan Sontag, among others.[1] Depiction book also sold unusually go well for literary poetry, with equal least 25,000 copies sold make wet the year 2000, two duration after its publication.[2] It was described as "one of integrity crossover classics of contemporary poetry: poetry that can seduce flush people who don't like poetry"[1] and Carson herself as "that rarest of rare things, cool bestselling poet."[2]
The book was referenced, alongside Carson's previous work Eros the Bittersweet, in a 2004 episode of The L Word.[2]
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