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The Red Scarf - Followed by 'Two Stages' and Additional Notes (Hardcover)
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The Red Scarf - Followed by 'Two Stages' and Additional Notes (Hardcover)
Series: The French List
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In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 93,
Yves Bonnefoy concluded what was to be his last major text in
prose, L'echarpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this
unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis"-a formal act
of commemoration-Bonnefoy undertakes, at the end of his life, a
profoundly moving exegesis of some fragments written in 1964. These
fragments lead him back to an unspoken, lifelong anxiety: "My most
troubling memory, when I was between ten and twelve years old,
concerns my father, and my anxiety about his silence." Bonnefoy
offers an anatomy of his father's silence, and of the melancholy
that seemed to take hold some years into his marriage to the poet's
mother. At the heart of this book is the ballad of Elie and Helene,
the poet's parents. It is the story of their lives together in the
Auvergne, and later in Tours, seen through the eyes of their
son-the solitary boy's intense but inchoate experience, reviewed
through memories of the now elderly man. What makes The Red Scarf
indispensable is the intensely personal nature of the material,
casting its slant light, a setting sun, on all that has gone
before.
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Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
The French List |
Release date: |
March 2021 |
Authors: |
Yves Bonnefoy
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Translators: |
Stephen Romer
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Dimensions: |
197 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-738-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-85742-738-5 |
Barcode: |
9780857427380 |
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