[The otherwise model archive of cavafy.com doesn't offer English translations of his unfinished poems. Here's an attempt at a short macabre that shows a different side of the "sensational" Alexandrine. Original text can be found here.] Often the look of Justinian horror and disgust inspired in his attendants. Something they suspected they did not dare utter; … Continue reading Translating (unfinished) Cavafy: From The Historia Arcana
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Translating Thanasis Triaridis: Background to their love
Included in “Ich Bebe”, first self-published electronically in 2007 without copyright ( http://www.triaridis.gr/ichbebe/ ) Every time he saw, still a teenager, on TV or in books those famous wonders of the world, Pyramids, Great Walls, Cathedrals reaching to the sky, he thought of killers holding swords and whips and slaves buried in various foundations unable … Continue reading Translating Thanasis Triaridis: Background to their love
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