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Cavafy as World Literature

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AvTakis Kayalis,Vicente Fernández González,Greece) Kayalis, Associate Professor Takis (Hellenic Open University,Spain) Gonzalez, Professor or Dr. Vicente Fernandez (University of Malaga,Thomas Oliver Beebee

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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.Translated into many languages and in multiple editions, the poetry of C. P. Cavafy has attracted an international audience for nearly a century and, during the last three decades, has been unequivocally recognized as “world literature.” This unprecedented volume clarifies, enriches and problematizes multiple facets of Cavafy’s presence in the contemporary global literary sphere, while also drawing attention to its historical background through discussion of largely unknown material from the poet’s library, archive and early critical reception. Aside from having a strong global readership, Cavafy's work has been used by poets and artists all over the world as raw material for inspiration and re-translation into new cultural production. Some of his poems have assumed a universal and almost proverbial function in the global public sphere, whereas others have acquired new meanings and pertinence in specific historical, cultural and gender-related contexts, significantly different from their original conception. With essays from 19 scholars and researchers from 6 countries, Cavafy as World Literature offers a collective and multi-dimensional overview of Cavafy’s presence and function in world literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-11
Mått152 x 232 x 22 mm
Vikt820 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiteratures as World Literature
Antal sidor312
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765105313

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Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University, Greece, and author of Cavafy’s Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire (2023). He has served on the Cavafy Archive's International Academic Committee (Onassis Foundation) since 2017.Vicente Fernández González is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Malaga, Spain. His publications include a UNESCO-funded special issue of the literary journal Litoral dedicated to C. P. Cavafy (1999), La ciudad de las ideas (2001) and Málaga Cavafis Barcelona (2013). He is a member of the Cavafy Archive’s International Academic Committee (Onassis Foundation).

IntroductionTakis Kayalis (Hellenic Open University, Greece) and Vicente Fernández González (University of Malaga, Spain)Part I. Cavafy and World Literature: The Early Years1. Intimations of World Literature in the Cavafy ArchiveAngeliki Mousiou (Cavafy Archive, Onassis Foundation, Greece)2. Traces of World Literature in Cavafy’s LibraryChristina Kostoglou (Hellenic Open University, Greece)3. Cavafy and World Literature: Early Critical PerceptionsMelina Tzortzi(Hellenic Open University, Greece)Part II. Translations and Adaptations4. The Languages of Cavafy: A Survey of a Poet Progressing inside Other LiteraturesPaschalis Nikolaou (Ionian University, Greece)5. Jaime García Terrés: Cavafy’s First Mexican TranslatorRicardo Moreno (Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico)6. Cavafy Returns to TurkeyWill Stroebel (University of Michigan, USA)7. Cavafy in Catalan (1962-2024)Joaquim Gestí (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)Part III. Cavafy in World Literature8. Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the ClassicistsJoseph L. Watson (Durham University, UK)9. [G]hosting Modernity: Cavafy and the Articulation of a (Modern) Greek FantasticAlvaro García Marín (University of Malaga, Spain)10. Gothic ‘In Broad Daylight’: Cavafy’s Debt to PoePeter Jeffreys (Suffolk University, USA)11. Cavafy, Cernuda, Gil de Biedma: Poetic AffinitiesAntonio Jiménez Millán (Emeritus, University of Málaga, Spain)12. Poets of Liminality: C. P. Cavafy and Sayyid DarwishMay Hawas (University of Cambridge, UK)13. C. P. Cavafy in French Anthologies and the Power of InclusionMartha Vassiliadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)14. C. P. Cavafy’s Modernist ConnectionsTakis Kayalis (Hellenic Open University, Greece)Part IV. World Readings15. Queer Little Books: C. P. Cavafy and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Last Days of PompeiiCat Lambert (Cornell University, USA)16. C. P. Cavafy and Polish Homoerotic PoetryEwa Róza Janion (University of Warsaw, Poland)17. An Unexpected Metamorphosis of Cavafy’s "Ithaca" in CataloniaEusebi Ayensa Prat (Translator, Spain)18. The Long Journey to Ithaca: Cavafy in the Multimodal Popular FieldEleni Papargyriou (Hellenic Open University, Greece)19. From Collioure to Ithaca. Cavafy and the Twilight of FrancoismVicente Fernández González (University of Malaga, Spain)Notes on ContributorsIndex

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.