"Anne Carson is, for me, the most exciting poet writing in English today."--Michael Ondaatje
"This book is amazing--I haven't discovered any writing in years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro
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.
"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender."--The New York Times Book Review
"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday."--The Village Voice
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else… 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. (查看原文)
“ Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ”——济慈 哈罗德·布鲁姆称赞安妮·卡森是在世最伟大的天才,足以与约翰·阿什贝利和英国诗人杰弗里·希尔的作品相比。 这种评价是否有过誉的成分,至少从这两部中译而言,还...
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1 有用 叶生 2024-04-11 05:57:41 加拿大
看长着红色翅膀的少年,思绪和孤独像碎掉的玻璃瓶一样向身体里生长,流出鲜血淋漓的轻盈的文字。想抱住红色的小龙。
0 有用 Olive 2022-03-12 23:46:51
mood all the time
2 有用 Andyyyz 2022-07-10 10:12:58
为什么这么轻盈的文字可以如此优雅,哀伤?为什么看似简洁的句式却能传递出万钧般的情绪和力量?Anne Carson的诗有神性 // 2024.03.02 多遍
0 有用 夺铎堕𖤓 2021-01-16 11:40:33
嗯
2 有用 spurri 2018-12-30 19:46:13
Remarkable