Peter Jeffreys, Gregory Jusdanis

Alexandrian Sphinx (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), whose admirers have ranged from E M Forster, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry. In this illuminating book, Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis reveal Cavafy as a flawed genius who sacrificed love to change the course of world poetry. Alexandrian Sphinx chronicles the extraordinary story of his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty when they left Egypt and moved to Liverpool, London and Istanbul. As the poet reached adulthood, his story centred on his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor of both his poetry and modern life. Alexandrian Sphinx tells not only of Cavafy's life but of his work and his artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a radical new poetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398551244
• Artikelnr.: 73237753

Autorenporträt

Peter Jeffreys is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston and has written, translated and edited a number of books on Cavafy. He is a member of the International Cavafy Archive Academic Committee at the Onassis Foundation and served as a consultant for the exhibits at the Cavafy House in Alexandria and the Cavafy Archive Space in Athens.