An inclusive and detailed view of C. P. Cavafy as a "World poet," tracing his critical reception, his translation history and his work''s multiple interpretations around the globe, from the 1920s to the present. Translated into many languages and in multiple editions, the poetry of C.P. Cavafy has attracted an international audience for nearly a century and, during the last three decades, has been unequivocally recognized as "world literature." This unprecedented volume clarifies, enriches and problematizes multiple facets of Cavafy''s presence in the contemporary global literary sphere, while also drawing attention to its historical background through discussion of largely unknown material from the poet''s library, archive and early critical reception. Aside from having a strong global readership, Cavafy''s work has been used by poets and artists all over the world as raw material for inspiration and re-translation into new cultural production. Some of his poems have assumed a universal and almost proverbial function in the global public sphere, whereas others have acquired new meanings and pertinence in specific historical, cultural and gender-related contexts, significantly different from their original conception. With essays from 19 scholars and researchers from 6 countries, Cavafy as World Literature offers a collective and multi-dimensional overview of Cavafy''s presence and function in world literature.

Autorentext
Takis Kayalis is Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University. Vicente Fernández González is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Malaga, Spain.

Inhalt
Introduction
Takis Kayalis (Hellenic Open University, Greece) and Vicente Fernández González (University of Malaga, Spain)
Part I. Cavafy and World Literature: The Early Years

1. Intimations of World Literature in the Cavafy Archive
   Angeliki Mousiou (Cavafy Archive, Onassis Foundation, Greece)
2. Traces of World Literature in Cavafy's Library
   Christina Kostoglou (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
3. Cavafy and World Literature: Early Critical Perceptions
   Melina Tzortzi(Hellenic Open University, Greece)
   Part II. Translations and Adaptations
4. The Languages of Cavafy: A Survey of a Poet Progressing inside Other Literatures
   Paschalis Nikolaou (Ionian University, Greece)
   5. Jaime García Terrés: Cavafy's First Mexican Translator
   Ricardo Moreno (Autonomous University of Mexico City, Mexico)
5. Cavafy Returns to Turkey
   Will Stroebel (University of Michigan, USA)
6. Cavafy in Catalan (1962-2024)
   Joaquim Gestí (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
   Part III. Cavafy in World Literature
7. Classical Cavafy and Cavafy among the Classicists
   Joseph L. Watson (Durham University, UK)
8. [G]hosting Modernity: Cavafy and the Articulation of a (Modern) Greek Fantastic
   Alvaro García Marín (University of Malaga, Spain)
9. Gothic 'In Broad Daylight': Cavafy's Debt to Poe
   Peter Jeffreys (Suffolk University, USA)
10. Cavafy, Cernuda, Gil de Biedma: Poetic Affinities
    Antonio Jiménez Millán (Emeritus, University of Málaga, Spain)
11. Poets of Liminality: C. P. Cavafy and Sayyid Darwish
    May Hawas (University of Cambridge, UK)
12. C. P. Cavafy in French Anthologies and the Power of Inclusion
    Martha Vassiliadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
13. C. P. Cavafy's Modernist Connections
    Takis Kayalis (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
    Part IV. World Readings
14. Queer Little Books: C. P. Cavafy and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Last Days of Pompeii
    Cat Lambert (Cornell University, USA)
15. C. P. Cavafy and Polish Homoerotic Poetry
    Ewa Róza Janion (University of Warsaw, Poland)
16. An Unexpected Metamorphosis of Cavafy's "Ithaca" in Catalonia
    Eusebi Ayensa Prat (Translator, Spain)
17. The Long Journey to Ithaca: Cavafy in the Multimodal Popular Field
    Eleni Papargyriou (Hellenic Open University, Greece)

18. From Collioure to Ithaca. Cavafy and the Twilight of Francoism
    Vicente Fernández González (University of Malaga, Spain)

    Notes on Contributors
    Index