The red scarf : followed by, Two stages and additional notes / Yves Bonnefoy ; translated by Stephen Romer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonnefoy, Yves, author.

Contributor:

Romer, Stephen, 1957- translator.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Bonnefoy, Yves--Translations into English.

Bonnefoy, Yves.

Bonnefoy, Yves--Family.

Families.

Genre:

Translations.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Two stages and additional notes

2 stages and additional notes

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"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'écharpe 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 Hélène, 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." --Amazon.com.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Red Scarf

An `Idea for a Story'

Ambeyrac

Viazac

Toulouse

A Spelling Book

A Painting by Max Ernst

The Silent Third

Danae, the Hyacinth Girl, Balin, the Mask from New Guinea

Pierre Jean Jouve

Two Stages And Additional Notes

Two Stages

First Additional Note: An Aid to Understanding

Second Additional Note.

Notes:

"L'echarpe rouge © Mercure de France, 2016, Deux scènes et notes conjointes © Èditions Galilée, 2009"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Bonnefoy, Yves. Works. Selections. English.

Bonnefoy, Yves. Écharpe rouge. English.

Bonnefoy, Yves. Deux scènes et notes conjointes. English.

Two stages and additional notes.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780857427380

0857427385

OCLC:

1144790949