A powerful rereading of the classics based on the most groundbreaking Yourcenar.
“I hope this book is never read,” writes Marguerite Yourcenar at the start of the text.
Halfway between direct confession and neurosis, Fires reveals an inner crisis arising from Yourcenar's great failed love affair with her editor, André Fraigneau, and transforms it into one of the most beautiful and bravest books of her life.
Fires features a series of tales written in lyrical prose, almost poems, inspired by Greek mythology and a certain idea of love.
