Reading Cavafy:

the poet of old age

and the

poet of

future generations

This is the building in which Cavafy worked. Now a hotel,

it once housed the Third Circle of Irrigation, where he dealt

with the English-language correspondence.

A view Cavafy would have seen every day. The Building where

he worked is just out of the picture to the left of the foreground.

Cavafy approaching 40, with and without

moustache, but with the same pince-nez.

The view today from the building where Cavafy worked

Cavafy

in his

apartment

“sitting

without

reading”

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Rue Lepsius

Cavafy’s balcony

From David Hockney’s Cavafy illustrations