[ilds] Cavafy - Whose Translation?

James Gifford odos.fanourios at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 15:59:42 PDT 2007


How could I have forgotten Michael (again?!) -- yes, his book is 
excellent, as Charles notes too.  It's worth adding Robert Liddell's 
_Unreal City_ as a novel sitting behind the _Quartet_, including aCavafy 
figure (to be expected given Liddell's biography of Cavafy).

Best,
James

Bruce Redwine wrote:
> Michael Haag writes extensively on C. P. Cavafy in Alexandria: 
 > City of Memory, and Joseph Brodsky has an interesting article
 > on the poet in The New York Review of Books, which appeared
 > many years ago.
> 
> 
> Bruce
> 
>> 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?
>>
>> Best,
>> James
> 
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