Kavafis. Una biografia critica

I dearly love Cavafy, but this biography is a train wreck! I have purchased Cavafy's Alexandria by renowned translator Edmund Keeley , which looks like it is far more up to the task.

I'm not sure if I like this translation more than Rae Delven's (think I spelled that right), but this one definitely has more poems. Besides Pessoa and along with Milosz and Celan, the greatest 20th Century poets. (Many would say Neruda, Parra, Vallejo, Herbert, Bachmann, Einzenbergr, Ahkmatova, and Leggi tutto

Great poet. This 1974 biography is "okay." I would have given three stars if it had included a decent map of Alexandria. A good biography of Cavafy really should have a decent map! (I read the 1976 edition published by Schocken.)

Harto interesante, sobre todo, descubrir que toda la plétora hallada en la creación literaria de este insigne poeta es fruto de la propia introspección, más que de una vida rica en experiencias espectaculares o extraordinarias.

La biografía de Robert Liddell resulta imprescindible para conocer la vida y obra del poeta. Algún autor, sin embargo, ha acusado cierta parcialidad de Liddell por estar basada principalmente en los testimonios del escritor, poeta y ensayista, Timos Malanos (1897-1984), quien mantuvo cierta animadve Leggi tutto