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📚📚Οne of the most distinguished translators of modern Greek literature, David Connolly, spoke to Reading Greece about his love for Greek language and culture, the major challenges when translating Greek literature in English, and the role of #translators as cultural ambassadors fostering understanding between peoples and cultures. ![]()
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"Apart from its importance for the transmission of literary works, translation has always been instrumental in the dissemination of knowledge, religion and culture in general. Languages and cultures are promoted by the process of interaction and osmosis and one of the most effective means in this process is translation. Translators are, by definition, linguistic and cultural ambassadors and should be recognised as such".
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David Connolly was born in Sheffield, England, and is of Irish descent. He studied Ancient Greek at the University of Lancaster, Medieval and Modern Greek Literature at Trinity College, Oxford...
C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and making lost worlds or people haunt the present. Yet he also described himself as “a poet of the future generations.” Indeed, his writings address concerns and desires that permeate the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.![]()
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"Specters of Cavafy" (University of Michigan Press, 2024) by Maria Boletsi, Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Marilena Laskaridis Chair), and Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at Leiden University, in the Netherlands, broaches these questions by proposing spectral poetics as a novel approach to Cavafy’s work. ![]()
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Drawing from theorizations of specters and haunting, it develops spectrality as a lens for revisiting Cavafy’s poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, as well as his poetry’s bearing on our present.
BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Specters of Cavafy” by Maria Boletsi
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The Greek Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy (1863–1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and ...