"Che fece...il gran rifiuto" | "Far Away" | "The Afternoon" by Cavafy, C.P.; Durrell, Lawrence (tr.)

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Translation (item)

Title: "Che fece...il gran rifiuto" | "Far Away" | "The Afternoon"
Author: Cavafy, C.P.
Translator: Durrell, Lawrence
In: Clea: A Novel 1960
Page span: 285-287
Genre: Poetry
Material type: Book
Place of publication: London, England, UK
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date of publication: 1960
Other note: The three poems are included under "Notes", on pp. 285, 285-286, and 286-287, respectively. The poems are mentioned in the text on p. 140 ("Che fece...il gran rifiuto"), p. 40 ("Far Away") and p. 39 ("The Afternoon Sun"). These three poems also appear "in free translation" in: Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet (London: Faber and Faber, 2012 [19621]): on pp. 883-884, 882-883, and 882, respectively (in the section "Notes in the text"), along with the poem "One of their Gods" (p. 883). Clea also published: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1960.
Entry number: 4.439
Last updated: 2024-05-08