Alexandrian Sphinx - Gregory Jusdanis, Peter Jeffreys

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy, whose admirers have ranged from E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry. Winner of the International Hellenic PrizeShortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 'A deeply researched and engaging biography… Jeffreys and Jusdanis brilliantly recreate Cavafy’s world’ - Guardian‘A nuanced and original portrait’... Zobrazit více