Early in their biography of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys announce that they have written a “thematic” as opposed to a “linear” biography. The facts of their subject’s life, they hold, are rather unremarkable and straightforward. “We have chosen, therefore, to start and finish his life story with his death and then tell a circular narrative through various thematic sequences.” They continue: “The thematic approach also enables us to draw attention to the artificiality of biography as a type of writing.”
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