Fires (French: Feux) is a 1936 prose book by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. It consists of aphorisms, prose poetry and fragmentary diary entries alluding to a love story.
Stephen Koch reviewed the book for The New York Times in 1981, and described it as an "unwritten novel", a type of fragmentary book he compared to works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Colette, Cyril Connolly, and Roland Barthes: "These books insist - on everypage - that they are not novels. They refuse to be novels. Yet through their fragmented alternatives, we still can glimpse the novels they refuse to be - tales otherwise untellable, masked and revealed - for reasons ranging from discretion to despair to a certain visionary breathlessness. ... The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."[1]
fires, book, fires, french, feux, 1936, prose, book, french, writer, marguerite, yourcenar, consists, aphorisms, prose, poetry, fragmentary, diary, entries, alluding, love, story, firesauthormarguerite, yourcenaroriginal, titlefeuxtranslatordori, katzcountryfr. Fires French Feux is a 1936 prose book by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar It consists of aphorisms prose poetry and fragmentary diary entries alluding to a love story FiresAuthorMarguerite YourcenarOriginal titleFeuxTranslatorDori KatzCountryFranceLanguageFrenchPublisherEditions GrassetPublication date1936Published in English1981Pages214Reception editStephen Koch reviewed the book for The New York Times in 1981 and described it as an unwritten novel a type of fragmentary book he compared to works by Rainer Maria Rilke Colette Cyril Connolly and Roland Barthes These books insist on everypage that they are not novels They refuse to be novels Yet through their fragmented alternatives we still can glimpse the novels they refuse to be tales otherwise untellable masked and revealed for reasons ranging from discretion to despair to a certain visionary breathlessness The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale 1 See also edit1936 in literature 20th century French literatureReferences edit Koch Stephen 1981 10 04 Flights of a Polymath s Fancy The New York Times Retrieved 2012 02 16 nbsp This article about a collection of written poetry is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fires book amp oldid 1180100122, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
