![]() ![]() The novel ends, ambiguously, with Geryon, Ancash, and Herakles stopping outside a bakery near a volcano. 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. 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. ![]() It is unclear how much of the mythological Geryon's connection to the story's Geryon is literal, and how much is metaphorical. ![]() 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.Īutobiography of Red is the story of a boy named Geryon who, at least in a metaphorical sense, is the Greek monster Geryon. ![]()
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