Some Sort of a Solution
Charles Simic: Cavafy, 20 March 2008
The Collected Poems
by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou.
Oxford, 238 pp., £9.99, September 2007,978 0 19 921292 7 Show More
by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou.
Oxford, 238 pp., £9.99, September 2007,
The Canon
by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras.
Harvard, 465 pp., £16.95, January 2008,978 0 674 02586 8 Show More
by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Stratis Haviaras.
Harvard, 465 pp., £16.95, January 2008,
“... Barbarians’ – his best-known poem, written in November 1898 but not printed until 1904 – in Evangelos Sachperoglou’s new translation, which I prefer slightly to the one by Stratis Haviaras: – What are we waiting for, assembled in the Forum? The barbarians are to arrive today. – Why then such inactivity in the Senate? Why do the Senators ... ”
