In the preface to Constantine Cavafy, their magisterial and impressively thorough new biography of the great Greek poet (1863–1933), collaborators Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys write that they have “chosen . . . to start and finish [Cavafy’s] life story with his death and then tell a circular narrative through various thematic sequences.⁠[1] In other words, we […]

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