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The Monster Who Lived:
#AnneCarson’s Autobiography of Red
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In the old myth, Geryon is barely a character. A red-winged, multi-bodied monster on a distant island, he exists so Herakles can steal his cattle and shoot him through the head—the tenth labor, almost an afterthought. Anne Carson’s 1998 verse novel Autobiography of Red hands the story back to the monster.
Working from the shattered remains of Stesichorus’s Geryoneis, Carson opens with mock scholarship: translated fragments, a fake interview, appendices on the legend that Helen blinded the ancient poet. Then the romance begins. Geryon is a red, winged boy growing up in a modern town, ashamed of what he is. His older brother bullies and sexually abuses him; his mother loves him and cannot protect him. He starts an autobiography to hold the “inside things,” first in sculpture, later in photography—the camera becoming the only instrument that can look at him without flinching.
At fourteen he meets Herakles, sixteen, careless and golden. They paint graffiti, talk, and fall into a sexual relationship that consumes Geryon and barely registers as permanent for Herakles. Years later they collide again in Buenos Aires. Herakles has a new lover, Ancash; Geryon becomes the third point of a triangle that travels toward a volcano in Peru. The book ends in flight and ambiguity rather than an arrow.
Carson’s lines alternate long and short, closer to breath than to meter, and the tone stays dry even when the feeling is total. Critics noted the inversion at once: where Stesichorus has Herakles kill Geryon and take the cattle, Carson has him break Geryon’s heart and take his innocence. The book was talked into fame more than launched by it—Quebec’s QSPELL award, a National Book Critics Circle nomination—and it remains the work that made her hybrid method unmistakable.
#AutobiographyOfRed does not update a myth so much as refuse its original ending. The monster keeps his wings, his camera, and the last word.
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Exciting news for Canadian literature. It predictably means that Anne Carson’s writing and translations will reach a wider audience, which I think is a good thing.
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It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came roaring across the garden at him. He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars crashing against the window screen.
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It was the year he began to wonder about the noise that colors make. Roses came roaring across the garden at him.
He lay on his bed at night listening to the silver light of stars crashing against the window screen.
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…and he thought about the difference between outside and inside. Inside is mine, he thought.
…he began his autobiography. In this work Geryon set down all inside things….
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“I am a drop of gold he would say
I am molten matter returned from the core of the earth to tell you interior things–
Look! he would prick his thumb
and press out ochre-coloured drops that sucked when they hit the plate.” #annecarson #autobiographyofred
“Geryon’s life entered a numb time, caught between the tongue and the taste”
I don’t want this book to end.
Has provided relief, escapism, from work
but also inspires the work to come.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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Gertrude Stein
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I dreamed I wrote #AutobiographyofRed and woke up so disappointed. Not the whole book- just the translated fragments in the beginning. Def it was Anne Carson, not me.
"(...) Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. (...)" #AnneCarson #AutobiographyOfRed
Canadiense #AnneCarson gana el #PrincesadeAsturias2020 de las Letras https://t.co/MquxgRbsmy #AutobiographyofRed
#Cultura 📚 || Este jueves, la escritora canadiense #AnneCarson ganó el #PremioPrincesaDeAsturias de las Letras 2020; #AutobiographyOfRed es uno de sus textos más reconocidos.
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I propose a challenge to post seven books in seven days with no explanation, no reviews, just a photo of the front cover. The idea is to promote literacy and the love of books.
This is day 7 and I nominate @d0wninunderland
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“He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
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Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
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Anne Carson me recordó anoche que el epíteto más recurrente que Homero daba a la sangre era "negra", y me encanta. No hay que olvidar nunca el poder de los adjetivos... #AutobiographyOfRed
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