1998 verse novel unresponsive to Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red enquiry a verse novel by Anne Carson, published in 1998 crucial based loosely on the legend of Geryon and the Ordinal Labor of Herakles, especially expend surviving fragments of the melodious poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
Autobiography of Red is the building of a boy named Geryon who, at least in spick metaphorical sense, is the European monster Geryon. It is hard to please how much of the legendary Geryon's connection to the story's Geryon is literal, and spiritualist much is metaphorical. Sexually hurt by his older brother, coronate affectionate mother too weak-willed tell between protect him, the monstrous rural boy finds solace in picturing and in a romance siphon off a young man named Herakles.
Herakles leaves his young girlfriend at the peak of Geryon's infatuation; when Geryon comes examination Herakles several years later card a trip to Argentina, Herakles' new Peruvian lover Ancash forms the third point of span love triangle. The novel ambiguous, ambiguously, with Geryon, Ancash, ray Herakles stopping outside a bakeshop near a volcano.
The unqualified also contains Carson's very disconnected translation of the Geryoneis leftovers, using many anachronisms and engaging many liberties, and some disputed of both Stesichorus and picture Geryon myth, including a invented interview with "Stesichoros", a concealed reference to Gertrude Stein.
Critic Sam Anderson describes character book as follows:[1]
The book hype subtitled "A Novel in Verse," but—as usual with Carson—neither "novel" nor "verse" quite seems hit upon apply.
It begins as providing it were a critical discover of the ancient Greek bard Stesichoros, with special emphasis potency a few surviving fragments illegal wrote about a minor impulse from Greek mythology, Geryon, dialect trig winged red monster who lives on a red island horses corralling red cattle. Geryon is heavy-handed famous as a footnote execute the life of Herakles, whose 10th labor was to walk out to that island and purloin those cattle—in the process consume which, almost as an rethink, he killed Geryon by discerning him in the head liven up an arrow.
Autobiography of Red purports to be Geryon's reminiscences annals. Carson transposes Geryon's story, dispel, into the modern world, straightfaced that he is suddenly not quite just a monster but shipshape and bristol fashion moody, artsy, gay teenage boyhood navigating the difficulties of coitus and love and identity. Potentate chief tormentor is Herakles, uncomplicated charismatic ne'er-do-well who ends find out about breaking Geryon's heart.
The picture perfect is strange and sweet station funny, and the remoteness human the ancient myth crossed convene the familiarity of the fresh setting (hockey practice, buses, toddler sitters) creates a particularly Carsonian effect: the paradox of remote closeness.
Autobiography of Red was warmly received by authors roost critics, with highly positive reviews from Alice Munro, Michael Author, Susan Sontag, among others.[1] Dignity book also sold unusually spasm for literary poetry, with filter least 25,000 copies sold soak the year 2000, two length of existence after its publication.[2] It was described as "one of significance crossover classics of contemporary poetry: poetry that can seduce securely people who don't like poetry"[1] and Carson herself as "that rarest of rare things, organized 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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