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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Mythology and modern love intertwine gracefully in this shockingly gorgeous story. Carson captures the ontology of love and all its facets with wrenching accuracy. Her spare poetry pulls the reader into Geryon's senses with a deftness that gives his world the immediacy of a lucid dream. A reflection on passion, loneliness, and the sustaining power of art, Autobiography of Red is as sensual as it is elevating. (  )2   bitterfierce | Sep 10, 2009 |  Could not have possibly been better. ( ) damsorrow | Jun 11, 2009 | Carson's AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED is inspired by fragments from an epic about Geryon by the Greek poet Stesichoros. Geryon was a red creature with wings, murdered by Herakles when Herakles, as one of his Labors, needed the red cattle that Geryon herded . Carson's Geryon is a contemporary red creature with wings, who as a youth falls in love with a young man, Herakles, who will become a recorder of volcanoes. The poem is a lyrical and fascinating look at the nature of love, passion, obsession and cruelty. "SPIRIT RULES SECRETLY ALONE THE BODY ACHIEVES NOTHING is something you know instinctively at fourteen and can still remember even with hell in your head at sixteen. They painted this truth on the long wall of the high school the night before departing for Hades. Herakles' hometown of Hades lay on the other end of the island about four hours by car, a town of moderate size and little importance except for one thing. 'Have you ever seen a volcano?' asked Herakles. Staring at him Geryon felt his soul move in his side." (  )1 janeajones | Dec 28, 2008 | A book of extraordinary beauty. The writing as well as the plot is brilliant and heart-wrenching. Encompasses mythology and the modern-day experience of love. Retelling of the Herakles/Geryon myth in which the two are lovers. Includes elements of the fantastical, strange and inexplicable. So good it's like an assault. ( )1 WoodWoman | Dec 20, 2007 | Unless it's a class requirement, don't bother with this "novel". How this book got published I don't know; it's a slap in the face to the study of mythology, the English language, and poetry. This is the second worst thing I've ever read; it's surpassed only by the legendary _My Immortal_ Hary Potter fanfic. Come to think of it, _Autobiography Of Red_ actually has several things in common with _My Immortal_, starting with a complete disregard of the rules of English grammer. At least _Autobiography of Red_ can offer up the lame excuse that it's style is supposed to be some sort of failed offbeat poetry experiment, though that doesn't get it anywhere close to redemption. Both fictions also share the trait of completely miscasting every single character they deal with; _My Immortal_ features a Draco who goes to rock concerts, and _Autobiography of Red_ has a mythical monster attending school. As well, both examples of writing will, by the time they're through, leave the reader frantically hoping that they were intended as some sort of joke, rather than as serious fiction. Go and read _The Eye of Argon_; while it's just as poorly written as both _Autobiography of Red_ *and* _My Immortal_, at least it manages to be funny. I'll close off with links to the other bits of awful I just discussed, so people have some idea what I'm going on about: My Immortal: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2828044/1... The Eye of Argon: http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/people... (  ) fastfinge | Nov 8, 2007 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com (ISBN 037570129X, Paperback)Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red is a novel in verse, the author's first. A classicist by profession as well as a poet, Carson has drawn on antiquity for her cast, updating the myth of Geryon and Herakles. In the original version, of course, Herakles killed the red-skinned, winged Geryon. In Carson's very contemporary retelling, he merely inspires, but does not return, the monster's passion. By choosing Geryon as her central character, Carson can bring up the questions of existence as if they hadn't been asked before. After all, the monster's instincts have not been numbed by civilization. Fires twist through him. We feel the pain of learning the most elementary things, and then the volcanic intensity that comes with that more advanced thing, love. Yet Carson doesn't so much tell the story of Geryon's love as mediate his very being through semiological surfaces: cafes, video stores, lipstick, a library where he shelves government documents with a "forlorn austerity, / tall and hushed in their ranges as veterans of a forgotten war." Carson seldom satisfies herself with an image of the world. Instead she atomizes the world, leaving it broken down, refracted, and glinting. At times her verbal pyrotechnics manage to render pure energy:A little button at the end of each range activated the fluorescent track above it.No novelist could have gotten away with that last line. Yet it's very much to the point: Carson's Geryon is, among other things, a camera freak who doesn't understand that an observer must inevitably alter the nature of the thing observed. Here is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, cheek-by-jowl with the ancients! And indeed, Carson's achievement is to interweave the archaic and the modern so seamlessly that by the time we finish reading Autobiography of Red, the entire landscape looks inside out. --Mark Rudman (retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) O primeiro ciclo de testes foi encerrado. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais detalhes. |
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