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emilygreen0110 's review for:
Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
I thought this was so beautiful and stunning. Anne Carson’s writing is wonderfully rich, and I’ve never enjoyed poetry as much as I have here (caveat also that this is free verse)
Anne Carson turns a mythical monster into a painfully human boy in this sweet, lonely novel - I’m endlessly intrigued by the choices she made here to alter the original story to fit a modern world, and very touched by Geryon’s internal understanding of these reflections
The story is beautiful (and definitely a little bit sad), the writing is delightful, this may be closer to 4.5 or even 5 stars but I’m leaving room to return to this later and reread, so we’ll see!
I think this has really inspired me to read some of Anne Carson’s translations as well!
Anne Carson turns a mythical monster into a painfully human boy in this sweet, lonely novel - I’m endlessly intrigued by the choices she made here to alter the original story to fit a modern world, and very touched by Geryon’s internal understanding of these reflections
The story is beautiful (and definitely a little bit sad), the writing is delightful, this may be closer to 4.5 or even 5 stars but I’m leaving room to return to this later and reread, so we’ll see!
I think this has really inspired me to read some of Anne Carson’s translations as well!