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Anne Carson

4.2 AVERAGE

endraia's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

princxporkchop's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Anne Carson, the woman that you are. Autobiography of Red goes quintuple platinum in THIS house. Endless beautiful lines.

Content Warnings

hexadonis's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

downriotlane's review against another edition

3.0

Tried very hard to find the words to review this book, but i think i can sum it up by saying that I wished it was longer and more complex, because the simplicity of the writing limited the story I feel like.

brewastorminateacup's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

lcmilewski's review against another edition

5.0

This is a strange and intense little book/poem/novella that was recommended to me by a colleague; it’s a good example of something I’d never have picked up on my own because I know no one else who has read it and it’s not really in any of my typical areas of interest or comfort. So, hooray for asking different folks for recommendations.

I’m not really sure how to characterize Carson’s masterpiece, which I’ve since learned is rather famous in some circles. A novella in verse? A homoerotic re-telling of the myth of Herakles and Geryon? A story about a disastrous first love? A part-translation, part-adaptation of an ancient text fragment? It’s all of those, but none of them do it justice. This book made my mind work hard and made me want to read more of Carson’s writing. It’s beautifully written and deeply felt. “Geryon’s whole body formed one arch of a cry—upcast to that custom, the human custom of wrong love.” It’s perfect sentences like this that make Autobiography of Red such a worthwhile challenge.