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The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle

The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle

Jeffreys, Peter

Hardcover

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9774162579
ISBN13: 9789774162572
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Jun 15 2009
Pages: 212
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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