Autobiography of red : a novel in verse
Title:
Autobiography of red : a novel in verse
JLCTITLE245:
Anne Carson.
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
Physical Description:
149 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780375401336
9780375701290
Abstract:
A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone, ' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a parallel world of photography, and falls in love with Herakles--a golden young man who leaves Geryon at the peak of infatuation. Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, until that glass house is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. Running throughout is Geryon's fascination with his wings, the color red, and the fantastic accident of who he is.
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Contents:
Red meat: what differenced did Steisichorus make -- Red meat: what difference did stesichoros make? -- Red meat: what difference did stesichoros make? -- Red meat: fragments of stesichoros -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Autobiography of red Interview.