The City (poem)

The City (poem)

"The City" is an 1894 poem by Constantin Cavafy. Originally written in Greek, an English translation appears in the appendix of the Lawrence Durrell novel "Justine" (Faber and Faber, 1957); Cavafy is a character in the work. The narrator of "Justine" refers to his translation of the poem "The City" as "by no means literal" (page 221).


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