Ebook {Epub PDF} Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

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. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistPages: Autobiography of Red Quotes Showing of “Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”. ― Anne Carson, Autobiography of bltadwin.ru by: 11 rows ·  · Free download or read online Autobiography of Red pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the /5.

― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red. 61 likes. Like "Depression is one of the unknown modes of being. There are no words for a world without a self, seen with impersonal clarity. All language can register is the slow return to oblivion we call health when imagination automatically recolors the landscape. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse is one of Anne Carson's early fictional works, following Glass, Irony and God () and Plainwater (). Published in to general acclaim, it was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Intermingling verse poetry, literary fiction, and scholarly meditation. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED. From the fragmentary remains of the sixth-century B.C. Greek poet Stesichoros, Carson (a McGill classics professor) fashions a contemporary tale of "identity memory eternity," a postmodern extrapolation that blurs the distinction between the figural and literal. If Stesichoros's mostly lost narrative about a red.

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. "Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today." —Michael Ondaatje. Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red overleaps generic boundaries, interweaving academic criticism, excerpts of primary sources, translation, interviews, poetry and prose. It begins with a section titled “What Difference Did Stesichoros Make?” in which Carson discusses the influence of ancient Greek lyric poet Stesichoros. Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse reimagines the myth of Herakles and Geryon, the red winged monster whom Herakles slays in his tenth labor. Carson bases her version on fragments of the epic poem by Ancient Greek poet Stesichoros. Stesichoros' version of Herakles' tenth labor is unique in that it is told not from Herakles' perspective, but from "Geryon's own experience" (6).