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Autobiography of Red

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Autobiography of Red	comment	A 1998 novel in verse by Anne Carson. It tells the story of Geryon, a boy who is red, has wings, has a whirlwind teenage romance (and miserable breakup) with a guy named Herakles, becomes a photographer, and travels to South America where he runs into Herakles and Herakles' new lover, Ancash. From Ancash, Geryon learns why he is red and has wings. (It involves him being a Chosen One. Kind of.)Geryon and Herakles are, of course, originally from Classical Mythology, where Geryon is the giant, monstrous keeper of a herd of red cattle. Herakles steals the cattle — killing Geryon in the process — as one of his labors. Carson brings up that version of the story in some prefatory matter concerning the poet Stesichoros, who wrote the first sympathetic portrayal of Geryon in the sixth century BCE. This section of the book also discusses a separate story about Stesichoros: he is supposed to have been struck blind by Helen for insulting her in a poem, then had his sight restored after writing a palinode.Autobiography of Red was followed in 2013 by a Denser and Wackier (but also somewhat darker) sequel, Red Doc>.
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Autobiography of Red / int_10e5b4f4	type	Visible Silence
Autobiography of Red / int_10e5b4f4	comment	Visible Silence: Very late in the book, Geryon tries to strike up a conversation with Ancash, who's mad at him for sleeping with Herakles. Ancash's non-responses are represented by rows of twelve dots.
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Autobiography of Red / int_14e19333	type	Backstory Horror
Autobiography of Red / int_14e19333	comment	Backstory Horror: Early in the book, we hear about Geryon being sexually abused as a young child. The narrative never mentions it again, and the overall tone of the book is gentler than one might expect after a revelation like that.
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Autobiography of Red / int_1589afa2	type	Freakiness Shame
Autobiography of Red / int_1589afa2	comment	Freakiness Shame: Geryon is embarrassed by his wings and often hides them under a trenchcoat. Much later, Ancash's admiration of them sets off the final subplot of Geryon's descent into the volcano.
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Autobiography of Red / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Autobiography of Red / int_1ba17583	comment	Played straight early on, when Geryon's mother calls her friend, Maria.
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Autobiography of Red / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Autobiography of Red / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The Stesichoros matter isn't quite a frame story, but it serves a similar function of providing context and perspective to the main narrative.
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Autobiography of Red / int_20d6f4ea	type	Photo Montage
Autobiography of Red / int_20d6f4ea	comment	Photo Montage: Evoked non-visually late in the book, in a series of seven chapters/poems all formed on the same pattern: a title including the word "Photographs," a one-line description of the picture, and a narration of the circumstances in which it was taken. Subverted in the seventh of the series, "Photographs: #1748," in which the description is, "It is a photograph he never took, no one here took it." Since this is the chapter in which Geryon flies into the volcano, and he apparently does take a photograph, the negating description recalls the Stesichorean palinode.
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Autobiography of Red / int_21f5491	type	Appease the Volcano God
Autobiography of Red / int_21f5491	comment	Appease the Volcano God: Subverted. According to Ancash, the villagers of Jucu used to throw people into the nearby volcano — not as sacrifices, but because occasionally someone would return from the experience with "all their weaknesses burned away."
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Autobiography of Red / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
Autobiography of Red / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Geryon. His wings are apparently small enough to hide easily, but big enough to fly with.
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Autobiography of Red / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Autobiography of Red / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: More literally mytholgical than most. The version of his autobiography that Geryon writes in elementary school is basically a rewrite of the version of the Geryoneis found in the front matter, complete with red cattle, red dog, and a murderous Herakles. (That last bit is all the more interesting because this continuity's version of Herakles hasn't even shown up yet.)
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Autobiography of Red / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Autobiography of Red / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Herakles and Ancash both suffer from this. Geryon's dad is present, but doesn't play any part in the story.
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Autobiography of Red / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Autobiography of Red / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The snippets of Gratuitous German on Geryon's postcards seem to be tailored to the recipients. In particular, Zum verlorenen Hören ("For lost hearing") seems a peculiarly poignant thing to write to one's former professor. Icchantikas sounds like Mayincatec gibberish, but actually comes from a Sanskrit term used in Mahayana Buddhism to refer to someone who is incapable of achieving enlightenment.
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Autobiography of Red / int_2af0378f	type	Mayincatec
Autobiography of Red / int_2af0378f	comment	Icchantikas sounds like Mayincatec gibberish, but actually comes from a Sanskrit term used in Mahayana Buddhism to refer to someone who is incapable of achieving enlightenment.
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Autobiography of Red / int_323e47e2	type	Chain of Corrections
Autobiography of Red / int_323e47e2	comment	Chain of Corrections: Herakles and Geryon go through a brief one of these:
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Autobiography of Red / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
Autobiography of Red / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: Implied. Ancash says that the Yazcamac return as red Winged Humanoids. Geryon was a red Winged Humanoid to begin with; in a way, he can already be identified as a Yazcamac. He decides to fly into the volcano anyway. He doesn't seem dramatically different afterward.
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Autobiography of Red / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Autobiography of Red / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: Geryon's and Ancash's mothers, and Herakles' grandmother, are all left nameless despite appearing in several scenes apiece.
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Autobiography of Red / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Autobiography of Red / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: The "bits of Heidegger" Geryon scribbles on his postcards home. For that matter, the place he's writing from is called the Café Mitwelt.
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Autobiography of Red / int_3bbecc8b	type	Hell-Bent for Leather
Autobiography of Red / int_3bbecc8b	comment	Hell-Bent for Leather: Herakles is a Bad Boy type and wears a black leather jacket.
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Autobiography of Red / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
Autobiography of Red / int_41d50d81	comment	Big Brother Bully: Geryon has an older brother who, when they are children, insults, undermines, and sexually abuses him.
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Autobiography of Red / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Autobiography of Red / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: The book contains two mutually-exclusive stories about Geryon and Herakles, one in the front matter and one in the main body.
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Autobiography of Red / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Autobiography of Red / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Herakles has one on the rooftop in Lima. There's a striking image of him eating a papaya and letting the juice run down his chest.
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Autobiography of Red / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
Autobiography of Red / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: Herakles' grandmother has one of these. She starts off talking about the physiology of drowning, which brings up the time she met Virginia Woolf, which brings up a dog she once had (which drowned), which brings up her acquaintanceship with Sigmund Freud... (She does dial it back once Geryon asks her a specific question.)
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Autobiography of Red / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Autobiography of Red / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Young Geryon is repeatedly molested by his brother early in the book.
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Autobiography of Red / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Autobiography of Red / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Eight presumably uneventful years elapse between the breakup and Geryon's trip to South America.
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Autobiography of Red / int_620475f4	type	Tastes Like Purple
Autobiography of Red / int_620475f4	comment	Tastes Like Purple: Midway through the story, Geryon is revealed to be a synesthete by means of a flashback to a school project that he did about "the noise the colors make." This sheds retroactive light on things like the "red" smell of grass from the first poem.
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Autobiography of Red / int_62df7833	type	Multiple Narrative Modes
Autobiography of Red / int_62df7833	comment	Multiple Narrative Modes: The main story is all in novelistic (though versified) third person limited, but the front and back matter use several other modes, including a nonfiction-style prose introduction to Stesichoros, fragmentary poems in Stesichoros' voice, and a section made up of extracts from other ancient authors.
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Autobiography of Red / int_6bf29c6e	type	Good Wings, Evil Wings
Autobiography of Red / int_6bf29c6e	comment	Good Wings, Evil Wings: Averted in canon, as the form of Geryon's wings is never directly addressed.note The closest we get is a passage that describes them as both "fingerwork," suggesting bat wings, and "lace," suggesting feathers. Fan Art tends to interpret them as birdlike.
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Autobiography of Red / int_6cdb15b4	type	With a Friend and a Stranger
Autobiography of Red / int_6cdb15b4	comment	With a Friend and a Stranger: In the final section of the story, there is the trio of Geryon, Herakles (Geryon's Old Flame), and Ancash (stranger to Geryon, newish Love Interest to Herakles).
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Autobiography of Red / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
Autobiography of Red / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Played with. Apart from the central trio, the only named characters are minor ones, such as Maria (Geryon's mother's friend, who never appears onscreen), or Lazer (who has only one scene — part of which is devoted to him explaining his name). More important characters such as Geryon's mother and brother go unnamed.
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Autobiography of Red / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Autobiography of Red / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Unexpectedly for a Queer Romance involving adolescents, this is averted. Geryon's mother instantly intuits the nature of his relationship with Herakles, and accepts it without batting an eye.
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Autobiography of Red / int_703b3699	type	Came Back Strong
Autobiography of Red / int_703b3699	comment	Came Back Strong: A variant (involving unlikely survival rather than a full-blown Back from the Dead situation) is predicted to be what will happen to Geryon after his descent into the volcano. What it actually does to him ends up being somewhat vague.
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Autobiography of Red / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Autobiography of Red / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: During the Argentinian interlude, Geryon repeatedly asks: "What is time made of?"
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Autobiography of Red / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Autobiography of Red / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: The joke told in Spanish by the philosophers, which Geryon fails to get. All the reader is told is that it involves monks and soup and that the punchline includes the phrase "bad milk."
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Autobiography of Red / int_7dc91b4e	type	Climactic Volcano Backdrop
Autobiography of Red / int_7dc91b4e	comment	Climactic Volcano Backdrop: Subverted. Geryon apparently does fly into a volcano and emerge unscathed, but it's an Offscreen Moment of Awesome.
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Autobiography of Red / int_8476f757	type	Film the Hand
Autobiography of Red / int_8476f757	comment	Film the Hand: A variant, in some ways closer to Camera Obscurer. One of the pictures in the Photo Montage sequence towards the end is "a close-up photograph of Geryon's left pant leg just below the knee." The backstory is that Geryon was about to photograph some soldiers (which would presumably not have been a good idea) and Ancash's mother pushed the camera down at the last second.
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Autobiography of Red / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Autobiography of Red / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Total known facts about Geryon's hometown: It is on an island, which Geryon once describes as "an island in the Atlantic called the Red Place."note But we don't know how literal he is being, since the same passage is full of references to things that don't actually happen in this continuity. It's near a beach where American money and "a piece of an old war helmet" are not unusual things to find. On the other end of the island — seven hours away by bus — are a town called Hades and an active volcano. Geryon has a North American accent but denies being from the U.S.
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Autobiography of Red / int_85df362c	type	Fire Is Red
Autobiography of Red / int_85df362c	comment	Fire Is Red: Geryon, who is red, frequently thinks and feels using fire imagery.
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Autobiography of Red / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Autobiography of Red / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: This story builds on the sympathetic portrait of Geryon that originated with Stesichoros, and takes it a step further by making the situation Lighter and Softer so that Geryon and Herakles can both be sympathetic at the same time.
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Autobiography of Red / int_99208bf0	type	Eye Motifs
Autobiography of Red / int_99208bf0	comment	Eye Motifs: There are frequent references to eyes, especially Geryon's eyes, as a sort of conduit to the outer world. This echoes the Framing Device, which discusses Stesichoros being blinded and then having his sight restored.
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Autobiography of Red / int_9d137658	type	The Chanteuse
Autobiography of Red / int_9d137658	comment	The Chanteuse: The singer in the tango bar. A somewhat less glamorous version, if only because Geryon isn't a fan of the music.
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Autobiography of Red / int_9e1b9a0e	type	Camera Fiend
Autobiography of Red / int_9e1b9a0e	comment	Camera Fiend: Geryon, especially late in the book, spends quite a bit of time either taking photographs, planning to take photographs, or thinking up titles for the photographs he is taking or planning to take.
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Autobiography of Red / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Autobiography of Red / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Geryon is red.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a00fb5fd	type	First Love
Autobiography of Red / int_a00fb5fd	comment	First Love: Herakles seems to be this to Geryon, which leads to Geryon taking their breakup much harder than Herakles probably anticipated.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a5603c88	type	Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It
Autobiography of Red / int_a5603c88	comment	Gotta Have It, Gonna Steal It: Herakles takes a shine to the wooden tiger figure on a merry-go-round and convinces the other two to help him steal it.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Autobiography of Red / int_a7850fbf	comment	The yellowbeard and Lazer (who wears a yellow scarf) are people Geryon socializes with for a day, with no follow-up or ongoing acquaintance.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
Autobiography of Red / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: A rainstorm occurs halfway through the book, while Geryon is still reeling from Herakles breaking up with him. In a variant of this trope, it isn't so much an Empathic Environment as it is Irony: the storm is portrayed as dynamic and forceful, in contrast to Geryon's inertia.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Autobiography of Red / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Geryon and Herakles.
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Autobiography of Red / int_a9c40434	type	Birthmark of Destiny
Autobiography of Red / int_a9c40434	comment	Birthmark of Destiny: Geryon's unusual appearance turns out to be a sign that he is a Yazcamac.
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Autobiography of Red / int_bee9473c	comment	The Magazine Rule: Lampshaded when Geryon looks over the magazines at a newsstand:
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Autobiography of Red / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Geryon flying into the volcano at the end of the story.
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Autobiography of Red / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There are repeated references to Emily Dickinson. One of her poems, #1748, is used as an epigraph. Herakles and Ancash are working on a documentary about her. Geryon gets a line from one of her letters stuck in his head. The title of the penultimate poem, "Photographs: #1748," echoes the epigraph.
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Autobiography of Red / int_ca326e1e	comment	Chekhov's Volcano: Subverted with the volcano on Hades, which doesn't erupt within the timeframe of the story. Played more-or-less straight with Icchantikas: it doesn't actually erupt, but it's a lot more active than Ancash originally implied, and it becomes directly plot-relevant at the end.
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Autobiography of Red / int_ca4e037	comment	Dude Looks Like a Lady: Geryon and Ancash are momentarily fascinated by two people in furs and high heels, who they suddenly realize are men.
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Autobiography of Red / int_d0692227	comment	Spooky Photographs: A (probably) non-literal version: Geryon takes a picture of Herakles which appears to him as "the face / of an old man . . . a photograph of the future."
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Autobiography of Red / int_dbea254f	comment	Chosen One: Geryon, as a Yazcamac, is assumed to be fated to become an immortal wise man.
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Autobiography of Red / int_dc3e1299	comment	Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Subverted. There are many Germans in Buenos Aires — but they are all soccer players (or psychoanalysts, or cigarette girls).
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Autobiography of Red / int_e20e7076	comment	Newhart Phone Call: A couple of examples, colored by the fact that the entire story is told from Geryon's point of view. Played straight early on, when Geryon's mother calls her friend, Maria. Zig-zagged later. Geryon gets a call from Herakles, and both sides of the conversation are provided. But in the next chapter Geryon calls his mother and we only hear his side.
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Autobiography of Red / int_e6132e31	comment	Old Flame: Herakles and Geryon become involved again after running into each other in South America.
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