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Carson, Anne

Autobiography of Red : A Novel in Verse

Vintage, 1999

12,50 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1999
ISBN
9780375701290
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Carson, Anne
Editori
Vintage
Edizione
1st Pbk Edition
Soggetto
GREEK MYTHOLOGY FICTION CANADIAN WRITERS POETRY GREEK INFLUENCE, ON LITERATURE
Descrizione
S
Sovracoperta
No
Legatura
Brossura
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present. 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.149p