Autobiography of Red begins before the action: ‘He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet. The very different style is what is first noticeable to the reader. Red Doc>, carries on their story ‘in a very different style and with changed names,’ as Carson writes in the book’s dust jacket. In Autobiography of Red, Geryon has a love affair with a man named Herakles. Some of the plot is known in advance, by way of Carson's much celebrated Autobiography of Red, which chronicles the coming-of-age of a red, winged creature named Geryon, and forms a prequel to Red Doc>. She does not reveal the identity of the speaker, nor does she include a list of characters, which might help the reader make sense for themselves of those characters and the plot in which they figure. While we can debate whether she ‘hurries to the action,’ by beginning with a spoken memory, Carson certainly doesn't waste time giving information about the conversation that opens her story.
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