{"product_id":"constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography-hardcover","title":"Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory Jusdanis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Jeffreys\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA long-awaited and much-anticipated biography of one of the great modern poets.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1933, on his seventieth birthday, the poet Constantine Cavafy died in an Alexandrian hospital, surrounded by friends. He left behind a small, curated oeuvre of 154 poems, along with fragments and drafts of incomplete works. Throughout his life, Constantine had kept a tight grip on the distribution of his poetry, but after his death his reputation grew and Constantine became the august C. P. Cavafy, a writer known not only as a great composer of Hellenic verse--the man whose poems reshaped the Greek language--but also as a global poet whose writing transcends its geographic origins and is to this day widely loved and translated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis long-awaited study captures the complexities of Constantine Cavafy's life and work, showing him to have been a troubled, brilliant poet who sacrificed love for his art. In rich detail, Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys chronicle the young poet's life with his family, the vicissitudes of their fortunes, and their eventual poverty after they left Egypt and moved successively to Liverpool, London, and Istanbul. The biography then centers on Constantine's adulthood in his beloved Alexandria, the city that nourished his imagination and became for him a metaphor for modern life. Deep archival research uncovers the poet's relationships with his teenage companions, his friends of middle age, and the individuals whom in later life he enlisted in his steadfast pursuit of fame. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConstantine Cavafy: A New Biography\u003c\/i\u003e looks closely at Cavafy's artistic journey, from his early poetic experiments to his startling reinvention in middle age, when he renounced much of what he had written and developed a new poetics. Erotic, philosophical, and linguistically suggestive, this widely imitated yet singular style is now recognized and revered as Cavafian.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at the Ohio State University, \u003cb\u003eGregory Jusdanis \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Cavafy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBelated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Necessary Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFiction Agonistes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Tremendous Thing\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \u003cb\u003ePeter Jeffreys\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at Suffolk University in Boston and has written and edited a number of books on Cavafy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.76 x 9.24 x 6.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 12, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44807841972326,"sku":"9780374610425","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/apR22PVEql9780374610425.webp?v=1771498445","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/constantine-cavafy-a-new-biography-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}