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Cliquez ici for Alexandria. (Notebook).
A Greek Cypriot medical colleague of mine sometimes pays us a social visit, and I ask her as a favor to recite Cavafy in Greek, a language I do not speak or understand. The sound of the poetry alone is to me beautiful: but knowing it in translation, I am able to catch a word or two. The experience moves me deeply for reasons that I cannot quite analyze.
Her husband, as it happens, is a Greek from Alexandria, also a doctor, born in the year of Cavafy's death. His has been what to me seems a dispiriting trajectory in life, from the capital of memory (in Lawrence Durrell's phrase) to an English suburb where memory is abjured: from a life of cosmopolitan cafes to one ...
- Alexandria in Cavafy, Durrell, and Tsirkas.(Constantine Cavafy; Lawrence...
- Magazine article from: Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics Rodenbeck, John January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Keeley's critical book, Cavafy's Alexandria, which condemns the...Keeley's critical book, Cavafy's Alexandria, a passage that unfortunately...streets of today's Alexandria without feeling the presence of Cavafy's ghost, especially...
- Less is more: the poetics of omission in Cavafy's narratives.
- Magazine article from: Hollins Critic Whedon, Tony June 1, 1989 700+ words
...capturing the past by calling up images of place. For Cavafy his native Alexandria--a Greek's limited Alexandria of church, street...to ground his poems emotionally and historically. Cavafy's sense of place is more a mental state than a specific...
- "Telling the truth will give it a shape.": Christopher Hennessy converses with...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Theoharis, Theoharis C. Hennessy, Christopher January 1, 2002 700+ words
Constantine P. Cavafy is widely regarded as the greatest...influence for gay male poets. Cavafy, who lived most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, not only produced...Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy (Harcourt Brace, 2001) is...
- The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation.(Brief article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review March 22, 2007 700+ words
...the translator notes that Cavafy's work 'translates history...individual personal document'. Cavafy remains the poet of the Mediterranean--of Greece, Alexandria (his home), and the...because 'like all Greeks' Cavafy was 'a spiritual exile...
- A New Cavafy Is Born.(C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems and C. P. Cavafy: The...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Corn, Alfred September 1, 2009 700+ words
C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems Translated, with introduction...Mendelsohn Knopf, 547 pages, $35. C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems Translated, with...James, Marcel Proust, and Constantine Cavafy--only one was a poet. Most people...
- The Poetry and Poetics of Constantine P. Cavafy: Aesthetic Visions of Sensual...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Savvas, Minas September 22, 1996 700+ words
...his notebook dated 13 December 1902, Cavafy wrote, "I do not know whether perversion...splendor." The fact that I (a student of Cavafy for thirty-some years) had never before...sought to defend in this study is that Cavafy wrestled defiantly with the seductive...
- C. P. Cavafy. I've Gazed So Much.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Raizis, M. Byron September 1, 2004 700+ words
C. P. Cavafy. I've Gazed So Much. George Economou...CRITICS IN GREECE usually present C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) as a philosophical poet...condition. Certainly, they do not ignore Cavafy's homosexuality and his homoerotic poems...
- Cavafy.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch April 1, 2009 700+ words
Cavafy Alan L. Boegehold, translator Axios Press PO Box...can mean the difference between art and Engrish. "Cavafy: 166 Poems" is a new translation of the historical Greek poet Cavafy's important work in the field of poetry. Alan...
