"The gods do not die.
Faith dies."
K.P. Cavafy
God is not absent from Cavafy's work. However, his name is missing. In the verses of Alexandrinos, we meet the entire Greek theology, both in its polytheistic version and in its Christian version. Nowhere does the poet dogmatize or preach. The divine for Cavafy is part of man's behavior in his communion with life. Sometimes, he responds to desperation to give meaning, while at other times, he is hermetically silent. Sometimes the transcendent is humanized, wandering the alleys of mortals or wandering invisibly through the halls of history. In any case, it is present, as a wish, as a reference, as a role.
The book in question examines the position of the divine - in all its aspects and meanings - in Cavafy's poetic speech, collecting and analyzing from his entire work all those poems that bear witness to this relationship - the finite with the immortal, the human with his God.
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