Autobiography of Red

a novel in verse

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Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red (Hardcover, 2024, Vintage Classics)

147 sivua ; 20 cm, 147 sidor

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Publicerades 2024 av Vintage Classics.

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Tormented as a boy by his brother, Geryon escapes to a parallel world of photography. He falls deeply in love with Herakles, a golden young man, who deserts him at the peak of infatuation. So Geryon retreats ever further into the world created by his camera, fascinated by his wings, his redness and the fantastic accident of who he is. But all is suddenly and irrevocably shattered by Herakles' return. The novel is a deceptively simple narrative filled with currents of meaning, emotion, and the truth about what it's like to be red. A modern epic poem.

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recenserade Röd självbiografi av Anne Carson (Panache)

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What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. 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.

Here's one to research the original myth for and come back to. Possibly several times.

Ämnen

  • Herakles (myyttinen hahmo)
  • Epic poetry, Greek Adaptations.
  • Monsters Poetry.
  • romanssit (ihmissuhteet)
  • hirviöt.
  • sankarit.
  • kreikkalainen mytologia.