Marguerite Yourcenar (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
Other Literary Forms
Marguerite Yourcenar, though best known as a novelist, wrote in virtually every other literary form as well. Her first published work, Le Jardin des chimères (1921), was a poem about Icarus. It was followed by a collection of poems entitled Les Dieux ne sont pas morts (1922). Of these early works she did not speak highly. Feux (1936; Fires, 1981) is a collection of prose poems about love centered on such characters as Phaedra, Achilles, Antigone, Sappho, and Mary Magdalene, but shot through with images and allusions that reflect...
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