Days of those made like me: retrospective pleasure, sexual knowledge, and C. P. Cavafy’s homobiographics

This essay begins with a comparison between the anonymous ‘Roman d’un inverti’ (1894/5) and Cavafy’s poem ‘Να μείνει’, and then proceeds to read C.P.Cavafy’s private notes and key erotic poems in the context of late 19th and early 20th century discourses about non-normative sexuality. During that pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papanikolaou, D
Other Authors: Mackridge, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Maney 2013