What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos

What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos

A perfect book.―Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and Genet: A Biography

WINER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD

In June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will deeply shape his future and push him toward his poetic inclination. With this lyrical novel, tinged with a hallucinatory eroticism that unfolds over three unforgettable days, celebrated Greek author Ersi Sotiropoulos depicts Cavafy in the midst of a journey of self-discovery across a continent on the brink of massive change. He is by turns exhilarated and tormented by his homosexuality; the Greek-Turkish War has ended in Greece's defeat and humiliation; France is torn by the Dreyfus Affair, and Cavafy's native Alexandria has surrendered to the indolent rhythms of the East. A stunning portrait of a budding author--before he became C.P. Cavafy, one of the 20th century's greatest poets--that illuminates the complex relationship of art, life, and the erotic desires that trigger creativity.

Sotiropoulos, Ersi: - Acclaimed Greek writer Ersi Sotiropoulos is the author of ten works of fiction and a book of poetry. Her novel Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees was the first novel ever to win both the Greek national prize for literature and Greece's preeminent book critics' award. Sotiropoulos's originality and elegant natural style have won her audiences in many languages; she has been a fellow at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany, at Princeton University, as well as at numerous other programs around the world. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in English in the Harvard Review, Circumference, SmokeLong Quarterly, Words Without Borders, Metamorphoses, Absinthe, and Two Lines. Karen Emmerich is a translator of Modern Greek poetry and prose. Her translations include I'd Like by Amanda Michalopoulou (chosen for the top 25 translated books of 2008), Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris (nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Prize in Poetry and praised by Harold Bloom as revealing not only the disturbing intensity of the original but also a remarkable diction and poetic pacing of her own), and The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vassilis Vassilikos, which the New York Times called a superb translation of a deft and witty reflection on writing as well as a moving portrait of the artist in as political exile. She is the recipient of translation grants and awards from the NEA, PEN, and the Modern Greek Studies Association.

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ISBN 13	9781939931610
ISBN 10	1939931614
Title	What's Left of the Night
Author	Ersi Sotiropoulos
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	New Vessel Press
Year published	2018-11-15
Number of pages	290
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