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Essential Cavafy

Cavafy's mythical world presents us with an image of the good life — the life of exquisite sensuality, refined tastes, and mixed faiths — that more often than not carries within it the ripening prospect of its own death; yet in his work there appears to be no other life more worthy of celebration.... As ironist and realist, his vision is readily translatable into the language of contemporary experience; and the commitment to hedonism, to political skepticism, and to honest self-awareness... anticipates the prevailing aura of our times.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 80
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780880015165
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 1996