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Splendid ... limpid and passionate ... fluid and musical, Ersi Sotiropoulos' prose says it perfectly ... You can read this beautiful book by Ersi Sotiropoulos as an account of three key days in the life of Constantine Cavafy. You can read it as a passionate introduction to his work ... but you can also see it on a more metaphorical level. That of a reflection about art. How is it born? Where does it come from? --Le Monde Ersi Sotiropoulos fathoms with acuity the birth of her hero's unique voice ... In language marked by chiaroscuro, sobs and sublime anger, she suggests that the gloomy darkness of real life is often the breeding ground of a great oeuvre. --Magazine litt�raire Sensual, carnal and profound, this novel manages to render through its own rhythm the scansion of Greek verse, thereby transporting us along on the wanderings of one of the greatest poets in the history of world literature. Not to be missed. --Les Chroniques culturelles

Splendid ... limpid and passionate ... fluid and musical, Ersi Sotiropoulos' prose says it perfectly ... You can read this beautiful book by Ersi Sotiropoulos as an account of three key days in the life of Constantine Cavafy. You can read it as a passionate introduction to his work ... but you can also see it on a more metaphorical level. That of a reflection about art. How is it born? Where does it come from? --Le Monde Ersi Sotiropoulos fathoms with acuity the birth of her hero's unique voice ... In language marked by chiaroscuro, sobs and sublime anger, she suggests that the gloomy darkness of real life is often the breeding ground of a great oeuvre. --Magazine litt'raire Sensual, carnal and profound, this novel manages to render through its own rhythm the scansion of Greek verse, thereby transporting us along on the wanderings of one of the greatest poets in the history of world literature. Not to be missed. --Les Chroniques culturelles

In most lives there are no crucial moments, only representative ones. What's Left of the Night illuminates three days in 1897 when Constantine Cavafy began to glimpse what would be his destiny (his voice and his subject) as a major poet. Sotiropoulos notices every encounter and records every intuition with a lyrical, impressionistic style of her own. A perfect book. --Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and Genet: A Biography Striking ... Sotiropoulos's novel is both a loving tribute to a seminal Greek poet and a contemplative, fascinating reflection on the drive to create art. --Publishers Weekly Sotiropoulos has done an incredible job of painting a naturalistic scene of Paris as it was during the Dreyfus affair while giving a glimpse into what it was like to be a poet at that time. Cavafy's original approach to poetry is what set him apart from his contemporaries. Readers may well leave this novel with a sincere desire to pick up a book of his poetry. A beautiful portrait of an aspiring poet. --Kirkus Reviews Equal parts a character study and a treatise on the creative mind, the novel boldly provokes questions about the relationship between an artist's life and his art, specifically the quality of art that is born out of immense suffering. Rather than succumbing to shame, whether self-inflicted or socially imposed, the novel suggests that the cure for such darkness lies in transmuting misery into works of beauty ... Haunting and enthralling. --Foreword Reviews This elegant translation by Karen Emmerich of a provocative account of C.P. Cavafy's visit to Paris, based on published sources and archival work combined with novelist Ersi Sotiropoulos's rich imagination, illuminates an artist in ways that will please both those already familiar with Cavafy and those discovering this great poet of the past century. --Edmund Keeley, author of Cavafy's Alexandria and translator, with Philip Sherrard, of C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems A colorful fabric of Cavafy's memories and reflections. --Booklist Sensual, evocative, beautifully written and translated, this book is a wonder. --Lynn Freed, author of The Last Laugh and The Romance of Elsewhere A mesmerizing, sophisticated portrait of an artist coming into his own power. --Maureen N. McLane, author of My Poets and Some Say Splendid ... limpid and passionate ... fluid and musical, Ersi Sotiropoulos's prose says it perfectly ... You can read this beautiful book by Ersi Sotiropoulos as an account of three key days in the life of Constantine Cavafy. You can read it as a passionate introduction to his work ... but you can also see it on a more metaphorical level. That of a reflection about art. How is it born? Where does it come from? --Le Monde Ersi Sotiropoulos fathoms with acuity the birth of her hero's unique voice ... In language marked by chiaroscuro, sobs and sublime anger, she suggests that the gloomy darkness of real life is often the breeding ground of a great oeuvre. --Magazine litt raire Sensual, carnal and profound, this novel manages to render through its own rhythm the scansion of Greek verse, thereby transporting us along on the wanderings of one of the greatest poets in the history of world literature. Not to be missed. --Les Chroniques culturelles

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Ersi Sotiropoulos has written fifteen books of fiction and poetry. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been twice awarded Greece’s National Book Prize as well as her country’s Book Critics’ Award and the Athens Academy Prize. What’s Left of the Night won the 2017 Prix Méditerranée Étranger in France. Karen Emmerich has published a dozen book-length translations of modern Greek poetry and prose. She was awarded the 2019 National Translation Award for What's Left of the Night by Ersi Sotiropoulos. Emmerich teaches comparative literature at Princeton.

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