The Red ScarfAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Friday 5 March 2021
Description
An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoyâ?Ts childhood memories. 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, Lâ?TAccharpe rouge, translated here as The Red Scarf. In this unique book, described by the poet as "an anamnesis"â?"a formal act of commemorationâ?"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: â?oMy most troubling memory, when I was between ten and twelve years old, concerns my father, and my anxiety about his silence.â?? Bonnefoy offers an anatomy of his fatherâ?Ts silence, and of the melancholy that seemed to take hold some years into his marriage to the poetâ?Ts mother. A At the heart of this book is the ballad of Elie and HAclA"ne, the poetâ?Ts parents. It is the story of their lives together in the Auvergne, and later in Tours, seen through the eyes of their sonâ?"the solitary boyâ?Ts intense but inchoate experience, reviewed through memories of the now elderly man. What makes The Red ScarfA indispensable is the intensely personal nature of the material, casting its slant light, a setting sun, on all that has gone before. A
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
06 Jul 2023
Literature: history and criticism
€16.37
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
05 Mar 2021
Literature: history and criticism
€22.22
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
27 Feb 2020
Literary essays
€35.10
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
26 Oct 2017
Poetry by individual poets
€23.39
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews