bAn intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy's childhood memories.b p 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, iL'charpe rougei, translated here as iThe Red Scarfi. 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. p At the heart of this book is the ballad of Elie and Hlne, the poet's parents. It is the story of their lives together in the Auvergne, and later in Tours, seen through the eyes of thei