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Marguerite Yourcenar

Fires

Translated in collaboration with the author by Dori Katz
130 pages,  5-1/4 x 8  © 1981

Paper $14.00

ISBN: 9780226965284   Published November 1994
Not for sale in the British Commonwealth except Canada

Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly personal narratives, reflecting on a time of profound inner crisis in the author's life.

"The unwritten novel among the fantasies and aphorisms of Fires is a classic tale."—Stephen Koch, New York Times Book Review
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