Description: Provides for the first time an inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a "World poet," tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his work's multiple interpretations around the globe, from the 1920s to the present.
Brief description: Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University.
Review Quotes: "Most singular about Cavafy is his reception among world critics today. From a rather timid poet half-perceived in Lawrence Durrell's Justine or in E. M. Forster's Alexandria: A History and a Guide, today's Cavafy is constantly evoked not just as the most read and translated Greek poet but as a poet whose work rivals that of any 20th-century poet. As this volume goes to show, he may have been dead almost a century ago, but he is our contemporary in every way imaginable." --André Aciman, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, USA, and author of Call Me by Your Name (2007)