Cavafy, Athens, 2024.

On Cavafy’s first journey to Greece.
After his arrival in 1901, he reacquired his Greek citizenship and abandoned the British citizenship, which his father had acquired in the late 1840s.

C.P. Cavafy
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“Cavafy has all the characteristics of an exceptional man of decadence—wise, ironic, hedonistic—charming with a vast memory. Seated in a soft armchair, he looks out the window, waiting for the barbarians to arrive.”
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– Nikos Kazantzakis, who died on 26 October 1957, recalls meeting Cavafy.