The Driver’s Seat: undoing character, becoming legend

The Driver’s Seat is amongst the crème de la crème of Spark’s fictional works and it features one of her most memorable and enigmatic heroines. This essay begins by taking the riddles posed by Lise at face value and follows their at times horrific, at times hilarious terms and implications to their logical (and illogical) conclusion. In the process, it calls as witnesses other Sparkian characters and tested types, including a distinctive pair whose ‘dramatically shaped’ life engaged Spark as biographer and critic. Her cautious account of Emily Brontë’s legendary ‘self-styled superwomanism’ and her sister’s rendition of it is offered as an early instance of her own experimentation with character and an oblique vantage point for its spectacular undoing in the case of The Driver’s Seat

Cavafy among the modernists

Placing C. P. Cavafy among the modernists raises interesting questions. Which century can claim Cavafy? What does it mean to claim Cavafy for modernism? What space do we need to make for Cavafy in an approach to modernism that shapes and is shaped by his work? What re- and disorientations might that positioning require? Which nineteenth-century filiations does Cavafy carry over into his modernism? Is courage rather than contemporaneity a better guide in these orienteering exercises? This essay fleshes out these questions, asks a few more in the process, and attempts a set of triangulations and mediations between Cavafian and early twentieth-century words and worlds. This is not to trace influences or deep affinities but to deploy Cavafy as the “century's interlocutor,” in Paul's immodest but resonant phrase. Among the mediating or triangulated figures are F. T. Marinetti, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, George Seferis, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Vernon Lee, and Pierre Louÿs, with cameo appearances by Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Rimbaud, and Eugène Marsan

Introduction: Prime Spark

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New queer Greece: performance, politics and identity in crisis

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Hickman (M.), Kozak (L.) (edd.) The Classics in Modernist Translation. Pp. xvii + 264, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-04095-3.

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Nicolas Calas

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David Greig – Spark at play: a dialogue with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Willy Maley

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David Greig – Spark at play: a dialogue with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Willy Maley

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On the politics of queer resistance and survival: Athena Athanasiou in conversation with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Dimitris Papanikolaou

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"The taste of things inconceivable": Spark, Proust and the Sacramental Way

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