Autobiography of Red

Resumen del libro

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
National book Critics Circle Award Finalist
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.

Biografía del autor

Se define a sí misma como una artista "que hace cuadros, cerámica, cómics y chistes malos". Ha sido becada por instituciones de la talla de la New York Foundation for the Arts,Yaddo y la Rauschenberg Foundation, entre otras. Sus ilustraciones han aparecido en medios como The Paris Review, BOMB, Times Literary Suplement (TLS) o The Daily Beast.