Peter Jeffreys, Gregory Jusdanis

Gebundenes Buch

Alexandrian Sphinx

The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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: Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E. M. Forster; C. P. Cavafy; The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle; C. P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Works; Reframing Decadence: C. P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits; and Approaches to Teaching the Works of C.P. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9781398551237
• ISBN-10: 1398551236
• Artikelnr.: 73331768