[ilds] Cavafy - Whose Translation?

[slighcl]

On 10/16/2007 5:44 PM, James Gifford wrote:
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> Jane Lagoudis Pinchin has discussed Durrell, Cavafy and Forster in her 
> book _Alexandria Still_.  There are also several good articles on 
> Durrell & Cavafy, among which I would recommend Anthony Hirst's in _Deus 
> Loci_ or Anna Lillios' edited book _Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World_.
>
> Anyone else?

        Alexandria: City of Memory
         By Michael Haag
        Published 2004
        Yale University Press
        384 pages
        ISBN 0300104154
         
        This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of
        Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries,
        letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of
        the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary
        characters.Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical
        associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home to
        an exotic variety of people whose cosmopolitan families had long
        been rooted in the commerce and the culture of the entire
        Mediterranean world.Alexandria famously excited the imaginations
        of writers, and Haag folds intimate accounts of E. M. Forster,
        Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, and Lawrence Durrell into the
        story of its inhabitants. He recounts the city's experience of
        the two world wars and explores the communities that gave
        Alexandria its unique flavor: the Greek, the Italian, and the
        Jewish. The book deftly harnesses the sexual and emotional
        charge of cosmopolitan life in this extraordinary city, and
        highlights the social and political changes over the decades
        that finally led to Nasser's Egypt.


C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
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Wake Forest University
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