Romer Stephen
Romer Stephen - The Red Scarf Followed By " Two Stages" And Additional Notes - Paperback
Romer Stephen - The Red Scarf Followed By " Two Stages" And Additional Notes - Paperback
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Description: An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy's 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 L charpe 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 H l ne 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.
Title: The Red Scarf Followed By " Two Stages" And Additional Notes
Author(s): Romer Stephen
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803092942
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy's 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 L charpe 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 H l ne 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.
Title: The Red Scarf Followed By " Two Stages" And Additional Notes
Author(s): Romer Stephen
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803092942
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 10/6/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
