ALEXANDRIAN SPHINX : THE HIDDEN LIFE OF CONSTANTINE CAVAFY HC

Εκδότης: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Συγγραφέας: Peter Jeffreys, Gregory Jusdanis
Isbn: 9781398551237
Διαστάσεις: 198Χ130Χ19
Αριθμός σελίδων: 560
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 27/8/2025
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Περιγραφη

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.

'A deeply researched and engaging biography… Jeffreys and Jusdanis brilliantly recreate Cavafy’s world’ - Guardian

‘A nuanced and original portrait’ - Literary Review

‘A richly detailed and clear-sighted account of Cavafy’s life and work’ - The Spectator

'Melancholy and majesty. . . [an] extraordinary life story' - New Statesman

'This thematically organised study restores to full and vivid life the writer' - The New World

In this illuminating book, Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis reveal Cavafy as a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art and changed the course of world poetry. Alexandrian Sphinx chronicles the ext