Autobiography of Red

Gerião is a boy and also a red winged monster, who reveals his fragile and tormented spirit in an autobiography begun at the age of five.

As he grows, he escapes the disturbing family context, finding solace behind the lens of his camera, as well as in the arms of Héracles, a wandering knight with whom he learns the difficult art of loving.

Now intriguing now haunting, erudite and accessible, dense and seemingly simple, Autobiography of the Red is, as the author calls it, a novel in verse. The story of Gerião constitutes a deeply moving portrait of an artist in confrontation with the fantastic accident that he himself is.