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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780880015165
ISBN: 0880015160
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 80
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Publisher: Ecco
Product Release Date: 1996-11-01
Studio: Ecco

Cavafy's mythical world presents us with an image of the good life--the life of exquisite sensuality, refined tastes, and mixed faiths--that more often than not carries within it the ripening prospect of its own death; yet in his work there appears to be no other life more worthy of celebration.... As ironist and realist, his vision is readily translatable into the language of contemporary experience; and the commitment to hedonism, to political skepticism, and to honest self-awareness... anticipates the prevailing aura of our times.