The red scarf is Yves Bonnefoy's latest book, his autobiography, his literary testament in the strictest sense of the term. In this volume, Bonnefoy besees us his childhood, the relationship he established with his parents, his silences, his frustrations, the birth of his vocation for poetry, his faith in the poetic word as a means of healing the wounds that life inflicts on us. Bonnefoy, with mighty and powerful, takes us hand in hand throughout the twentieth century (the two world wars, Europe's economic and social misery, the birth of counterculture in the United States, university revolts in France) and gives us its exceptional lucidity to analyze and understand it. The red scarf is not only the autobiography of one of the greatest French writers of the last century, it is also a book that opens a way for us – the way of the poetic word – for us to reconcile with the world and with ourselves.