Constantine P Cavafy

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Cavafy Poems

Beschreibung

In 2009 Knopf published a new translation of Cavafy's Complete Poems by the brilliant and award-winning writer and scholar Daniel Mendelsohn. Now Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works for a Pocket Poets edition, including such favorites as "Waiting for the Barbarians," "Ithaca," and "The God Abandons Antony."

Autor

C. P. CAVAFY (1863-1933) was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete. His fame grew substantially after his death. ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR/EDITOR: Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews and essays appear regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. His award-winning books include The Elusive Embrace and The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Prix Médicis. He teaches at Bard College.

Produktdetails

• Everyman's Library POCKET POETS
• Verlag: Everyman
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 164mm x 113mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9781841597966
• ISBN-10: 1841597961
• Artikelnr.: 40602343