[ilds] Cavafy - Whose Translation?
slighcl
slighcl at wfu.edu
Tue Oct 16 14:55:59 PDT 2007
On 10/16/2007 5:44 PM, James Gifford wrote:
>
> 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
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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