Последние издания книг Константиноса Кавафиса

Канстандзінас Кавафіс (1863–1933) – сёння агульна-
прызнаны як найбуйнейшы сярод паэтаў, якія пісалі на
навагрэцкай мове. Тым не менш, пры жыцці ён быў амаль
не вядомы і большую частку свайго паэтычнага даробку
стварыў, ужо дасягнуўшы саракагадовага ўзросту.

A collection of nostalgic, erotic poetry from one of the greatest Greek poets to have ever lived.

C. P. Cavafy: The Unfinished Poems

Poems

The complete Cavafy poems – including the unfinished works – in a stunning new translation, published in the UK on the 150th anniversary of his birth and 80th anniversary of his death .

From the acclaimed author of ‘The Lost’, a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafy’s form, Daniel Mendelsohn’s translation brings to English the poet who won acclaim from generations of writers, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot among them.

Spanning the fall of Homeric heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafy’s poetry collapses the spectra of time, geography and age into intimately personal elegies. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and “Ithica”, famed for their revival of the ancient worlds, continue to address the modern reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafy’s unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. From a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohn’s edition is uniquely placed to become the fresh, definitive edition of Cavafy in English.

Cavafy is by far the most translated and most well-known Greek poet internationally. His work exists in multiple translations in a wide range of languages and major 20th-century poets as diverse as Auden, Brecht, Brodsky, Durrell, Milosz and Montale have all paid tribute to Cavafy, either by writing poems "in the style of Cavafy", or by openly admitting their debt to his poetry in their own work. Whether his subject matter is historical, philosophical or sensual, Cavafy's unique poetic voice is always recognizable by its ironical, suave, witty, world-weary and aesthetic tones. It is a voice which lends itself to translation. Indeed, translations of Cavafy's poetry are the best possible counter to the often quoted platitude that poetry is what is lost in translation. Cavafy's is a poetry that not only survives but actually thrives in translation. (From the publisher) "Τhe inventor of a modernity and an Alexandrianism of his own, so pungent and of such sad, dry elevation that his work transcends his language and his century". ( Robert Fitzgerald, Poet and Translator) "Cavafy is for me not only the great poet of the Levant, but of all culture in decline - which makes him universal in this century". (John Fowles, Novelist) "His complete sincerity, his angular stance to the world, his tenderness that is combined with the accuracy of a surgeon, his awareness of the past in the present and of the present in the past, his meticulousness, his grandeur - these are some of the qualities which no reader can fail to observe and which, singly and together, make him one of the greatest writers of our times". (Rex Warner, Classicist and Translator)

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn’s acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy—including the first English translation of the poet’s final Unfinished Poems—now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of The Lost.
No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal—and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian’s assessing eye along with the poet’s compassionate heart.
After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn—a classicist who alone among Cavafy’s translators shares the poet’s deep intimacy with the ancient world—gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy’s verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died—a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades—and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.

Константинос Кавафис - великий греческий поэт нового времени, общепризнанная знаковая фигура в мировой поэзии ХХ века - при жизни получил признание лишь в узких кругах единомышленников и лишь после смерти был признан величайшим мастером новогреческого языка, реформатором и, по сути, создателем современной греческой поэзии.
В этой книге впервые на русском языке представлен весь корпус его поэтического наследия в исполнении лучших мастеров поэтического перевода. В приложении представлены материалы и исследования, посвященные Иосифу Бродскому как переводчику Кавафиса.

From renowned painter and photographer Dimitris Yeros comes a collection of photographs inspired by the classic poems of one of Greece’s greatest writers: Constantine P. Cavafy. Yeros has produced nearly seventy photographic illustrations using a mixture of models and fellow members of the artistic community such as Gore Vidal, Clive Barker, and Jeff Koons as his subjects. These striking images bring out every nuance of Cavafy’s writing—with romance, intrigue, humor, despair, and eroticism each playing a part. In addition to its visual richness, the book presents new English poetic translations of Cavafy by David Connolly (Eroticon, Journal of an Unseen April) which are faithful to the original Greek works while bringing them to life for a new group of readers.

Stunning portraiture and erotic photography paired with new English translations of the poetry of C. P. Cavafy—called the greatest modern Mediterranean poet. Literary, artistic, celebrity and gay interest.

Константинос Кавафіс (1863 – 1933) – видатний грецький поет ХХ ст., творчість якого відкрила світу новогрецьку літературу. Розквіт його творчості припав саме на ХХ ст., хоча писав він здебільшого про елліністичну епоху або Візантію. Напевне, це можна пояснити тим, що Кавафіс народився і прожив більшу частину свого життя в Александрії, яка вважається своєрідним символом еллінізму, відіграючи особливу роль у розвитку культури, науки та мистецтва цього періоду. Може, саме тому поету вдалося органічно поєднати в своїй творчості елементи давньої грецької традиції з автентичною новогрецькою культурною традицією і таким чином накреслити основні вектори розвитку грецької поезії ХХ століття.