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Geryon is the protagonist, and a young boy when first introduced. The book spans his childhood through his early adulthood. His character is inspired by the traditional Greek story of Geryon, a winged monster. This version of Geryon is a lonely, introspective boy who conceals his wings, fears his own monstrosity, and wants to be loved and understood.
Geryon’s older brother takes advantage of Geryon’s innocence and betrays his trust, sexually abusing Geryon as a child. He makes Geryon's home environment unbearable.
Geryon’s mother is affectionate, but negligent in the ways that matter; wrapped up in her own problems, she doesn’t protect Geryon from his brother’s abuse. Geryon adores her as a young child, but one she fails to protect him, he pulls away from her as a teenager.
Herakles is Geryon’s first lover as a young man. He has a brash and bright personality. While Geryon is introverted and insecure, Herakles is loudly extroverted, and Geryon loves him but doesn’t feel understood by him. Herakles gently pushes Geryon away, saying that they will “always be friends,” and so breaking Geryon’s heart. When they reunite years later, Geryon learns that Herakles has a new lover. Geryon is still drawn to Herakles, but that love is mixed with wariness and hurt.
Ancash is Herakles'
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Welcome
Toby Sharpe
Edited near Vicki Madden
Art: Ottelien Huckin http://www.ottelienhuckin.co.uk/
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Autobiography of Red
1998 verse novel by Anne Carson
Autobiography of Red is a verse novel by Anne Carson, published in 1998 and based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus' poem Geryoneis.
Summary
[edit]Autobiography of Red is the story of a boy named Geryon who, at least in a metaphorical sense, is the Greek monster Geryon. It is unclear how much of the mythological Geryon's connection to the story's Geryon is literal, and how much is metaphorical. Sexually abused by his older brother, his affectionate mother too weak-willed to protect him, the monstrous young boy finds solace in photography and in a romance with a young man named Herakles. Herakles leaves his young lover at the peak of Geryon's infatuation; when Geryon comes across Herakles several years later on a trip to Argentina, Herakles' new Peruvian lover Ancash forms the third point of a love triangle. The novel ends, ambiguously, with Geryon, Ancash, and Herakles stopping outside a bakery near a volcano.
The book also contains Carson's very loose translation of the Geryoneis fragments, using many anachronisms and taking many liberties, and some discussion of both Stesichorus and the Geryon myth, including a