Autobiography of red themes
Autobiography of red pdf...
Autobiography of red themes pdf
In all of Geryon’s relationships, there are gaps in both partners' understanding of each other, and the consequence is loneliness, whether they’re together or apart. Geryon is a fundamentally solitary person. People pass in and out of his life.
This solitude weighs on him because he is someone who longs for love, and puts great stock in relationships, not only between persons but between persons and their environment. He wants to feel a part of things, embraced by the world, for he knows “There is no person without a world” (82).
Autobiography of red themes
One of the happiest moments we see Geryon experience is at a dinner party in Buenos Aires, where he let “the talk flow over him warm as a bath,” and “for a moment the frailest leaves of life contained him in a widening happiness” (96-7).
He wants to feel contained within the warmth of others. We see this also in his silent exhortation towards Herakles: “Don’t want to be free want to be with you” (74). Herakles finds Geryon’s obsession with “captivity” to be