"I'm having another sip of tap water. My blindfold mask has fallen, the authors have returned to their word-children and my curiosity has been quenched, as has my quadrilingual спрага, Durst, жажда, thirst."
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If you still haven't had the chance to encounter C.P. Cavafy during your literary adventures, maybe you will be happy to let this lighthouse of Alexandria guide you through centuries of Greek history - and timeless insights into the human condition.
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"Wise, modest, educated, intelligent, brave, full of virtues that almost make him a divinity for his own subjects, seems to the reader this Hadrian. At the same time, he is a man who commits crimes and falls in love as only mortals can."
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"If I believe the story or get carried away by the flow of the poem – I'll fall in love at first sight, like nineteen years ago, when I fell in love with Leipzig instantly." Submissions open from 1 May to 1 August 2018.
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