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Lädt ... Remember, Body...von C.P. Cavafy
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I hadn't realised that this was a collection of LGBTQ poems. They tackled many themes such as sensuality, moral attitudes, fear over being found out and more. I quite enjoyed them, but some of them seemed a little disjointed to me, but that could be an effect of the translation. ( ) The poems in this selection are simple, heartfelt, very short and surprisingly erotic. I know little of Cavafy's life and work, save his poem Ithaka, which was cited by Daniel Mendelsohn in his Odyssey, and Hockney's etchings which illustrate fourteen of his poems. I was surprised at the frankness of the desire expressed in these verses, though I shouldn't have been. It's precisely that which has made Cavafy so celebrated today: his luminous conjuring of smooth-limbed, beautiful boys and his memories of 'voluptuous illusions'. The poems have an overarching air of melancholy, of looking back. The poet seems to be on the brink of old age, warming the chill of his declining years by wandering past houses he once knew and remembering the sweetness of his early loves. There are some non-homoerotic images too: I was profoundly moved by the poem Candles, which envisages 'The days of the future... like a line of burning candles - golden candles, warm with life' and contrasts those with 'the days of our past, a pitiful row of candles extinguished, the nearest still sending up their smoke'. The poet looks ahead, fixing his eyes on the burning candles, ignoring the lengthening line of guttered lights behind him. Yet the bulk of the poems celebrate male beauty, along with the cautious thrill of daring to make such desires known. For Cavafy, the passionate tumult of his youth was the arena in which his art was formed, and he draws on those lost days as if on nectar, savouring those loved and lost. As a taster of his work, this has done its job: I'd like to read more. His blend of simplicity and sensuality is very appealing. Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is now considered by many to be the most original and influential Greek poet of this century. The qualities of his poetry that were unfashionable during his lifetime are the very ones that make his work endure: his sparing use of metaphor; his evocation of spoken rhythms and colloquialisms; his use of epigrammatic and dramatic modes; his aesthetic perfectionism; his frank treatment of homosexual themes; his brilliantly alive sense of history; and his commitment to Hellenism, coupled with an astute cynicism about politics. The translations in Selected Poems are completely new. Realizing that Cavafy's language is closer to the spoken idiom than that of other leading Greek poets of his time, and that earlier translations have failed to capture the immediate, colloquial qualities of Cavafy's voice, Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard have rendered his most significant and characteristic poems in a style and rhythm as natural and apt in English as the poet's is in Greek.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)889.332Literature Greek and other Classical languages Medieval and modern Greek Fiction 20th century 1941-1944Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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