C. P. Cavafy

The Barbarians Arrive Today

Poems & Prose

Ebook (EPUB Format)

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020A Review 31 Book of the Year 2020With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering unique insights into his life's work.Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Constantine Petrou Cavafy (1863-1933) was a minor civil servant who self-published and distributed his poems among friends; he is now regarded as one of the most significant poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an influence on writers acr… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Jones, Evan (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-80017-056-8
EAN: 9781800170568
Produktnummer: 34718302
Verlag: Carcanet
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 387 KB

Über den Autor

C.P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, where his Constantinopolitan Greek parents had settled in the mid-1850s. Cavafy spent his adolescence in England and Istanbul, but returned to Alexandria in 1885 where he worked as a journalist initially, and, from 1892 until his retirement in 1922, as a clerk in the Irrigation Office. Cavafy was not well-known in his lifetime, but found international recognition posthumously, and his admirers include Marguerite Yourcenar, Czeslaw Milosz, Leonard Cohen, Orhan Pamuk and Seamus Heaney.