This book — a reflection of a deep, albeit quiet, years-long dialogue between two voices: the French poet, prose writer, and essayist Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016) and the Russian translator Mark Grinberg (1953-2023). Bonnefoy's authorial collections «The Present Moment» (2011), «Digamma» (2012), and «Together Further» (2016), presented here under one cover, — are the last books published during the author's lifetime, in which he addresses his constant themes, surveying the infinite moment of presence with exceptional composure and economy of means. Mark Grinberg, who introduced Bonnefoy to the Russian language, accompanied this publication with a detailed commentary and a note from the translator, in which he summarizes the overarching themes of his interlocutor: «the internal contradiction of language, which both reveals and distorts reality, the incompleteness of any images and signs, the lie and truth of imagination, the deceptive nature of memories, poetry as a means of overcoming the fractures caused by language and conceptual thinking».
