by Marguerite Yourcenar · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070733125
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«Feux» is a collection of short stories and lyrical prose by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Gallimard in paperback (238 pages, in French).
The work alternates stories inspired by figures from mythology and biblical tradition —Phaedra, Achilles, Patroclus, Antigone, Lena, Mary Magdalene, Phaedo, Clytemnestra and Sappho— with reflections on amorous passion. Yourcenar approaches love as a concrete experience and as a mirror of more abstract obsessions: justice, knowledge, salvation.
Work originally published in 1936; this 1993 edition belongs to Gallimard's L'Imaginaire collection (no. 294).
For readers interested in twentieth-century French literature, poetic prose and recreations of classical myths.
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980. In 1965, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
