“Cavafi has all the characteristics of an extraordinary man of decadence – wise, ironic, hedonistic, charming, memory-impaired.\u00a0He lives as indifferent, as courageous.\u00a0He looks out of his window, lying in a soft armchair, and waits for the Barbarian to appear.\u00a0He holds scrolls with delicately inscribed eulogies, is festively dressed, carefully painted, and waits.\u00a0But the barbarians do not come, and he sighs in the night, quietly, and smiles wryly at the simplicity of his soul to hope.”\u00a0Nikos Kazantzakis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Cavafi has all the characteristics of an extraordinary man of decadence – wise, ironic, hedonistic, charming, memory-impaired.\u00a0He lives as indifferent, as courageous.\u00a0He looks out of his window, lying in a soft armchair, and waits for the Barbarian to appear.\u00a0He holds scrolls with delicately inscribed eulogies, is festively dressed, carefully painted, and waits.\u00a0But the barbarians do not come, and he sighs in the night, quietly, and smiles wryly at the simplicity of his soul to hope.”\u00a0Nikos Kazantzakis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2148,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[452],"product_tag":[],"authors":[374],"translators":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2808","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-greek-poetry","7":"authors-cavafy-constantine","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n