KathmanduSpeaks.com
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Kathmandu Speaks! Are you listening?
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- CAVAFY (1863-1933) belonged to the ancient port city of Alexandria and to a cosmopolitan society — polyglot and multiracial that was wilfully dismembered time and again in history. In their arrogant insecurity, the Alexandrians created a culture and a legend, an impacted palimpsest of languages and memories, of passions and conceits from which Cavafy's provincial genius fashioned something universal. His main thrust was political, the tragic glory of Hellenistic Greece and its decadence in which historical memories and personal experiences were inextricably mixed. Towards the end of his life, Cavafy said, "many poets are exclusively poets. I am a poet-historian. I could never write a novel or a play, but I feel in me a hundred and twenty five voices that tell me I could write history. But now there is no more time."
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