| Fires | |
| Author: | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| Translator: | Dori Katz |
| Title Orig: | Feux |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Publisher: | Éditions Grasset |
| Pub Date: | 1936 |
| English Pub Date: | 1981 |
| Pages: | 214 |
Fires (fr|'''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]