The Forster - Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle

Cavafy, C.P. & Forster, E.M. (edited by Peter Jeffreys)

ISBN 10: 9774162579 / ISBN 13: 9789774162572

Edité par The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo & New York, 2009

A propos de cet article

2009. xvii, 91pp. B&W illustrations. Both book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition with no inscriptions. All contents are tight and clean. "This book documents one of the most intriguing and significant literary friendships of the twentieth century. The English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's relentless determination to promote Cavafy by bringing out an English translation of his work. The letters also chronicle Cavafy's calculated refusal to comply fully with Forster's plans.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Forster - Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle
• Éditeur: The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo & New York
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 9774162579
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789774162572
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

The English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's relentless determination to promote Cavafy by bringing out an English translation of his work. The letters also chronicle Cavafy's calculated refusal to comply fully with Forster's plans. The story they tell involves a number of major twentieth century literary personalities--Arnold Toynbee, T.S. Eliot, T.E. Lawrence, and Leonard Woolf all participated in Forster's early translation project. Forster ultimately succeeded in launching Cavafy's reputation in the English-speaking world, setting an important precedent for his present global literary fame.
The volume includes all extant letters, the earliest Cavafy translations by George Valassopoulos (incorporating Cavafy's own authorial emendations), poems by E.M. Forster, archival photographs, and related letters.

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Jeffreys, assistant professor of English at Suffolk University (Boston, MA), is the author of Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E.M. Forster and C.P. Cavafy and the translator of Cavafy's Selected Prose Writings.