Alexandrian Sphinx - The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy

A gripping and revealing new biography of one of the greatest of modern poets, the queer, Greek-Egyptian Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), whose admirers have ranged from E M Forster, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Jackie Onassis, Leonard Cohen and Stephen Fry.

About the author

Peter Jeffreys is an Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston and has written, translated and edited a number of books on Cavafy. He is a member of the International Cavafy Archive Academic Committee at the Onassis Foundation and served as a consultant for the exhibits at the Cavafy House in Alexandria and the Cavafy Archive Space in Athens.A Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at Ohio State University, Gregory Jusdanis is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture, The Necessary Nation, Fiction Agonistes, and A Tremendous Thing.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffreys Peter, Gregory Jusdanis
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.08.2025
• EAN: 9781398551237
• ISBN: 978-1-3985-5123-7
• No. of pages: 560
• Illustrations: 1 x16pp b-w photos
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Alexandria, Istanbul, London, Greater London, Liverpool, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: writers, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern