The texts included in this book attempt to approach the issue of "reading" Cavafy from different perspectives, as an important but rather neglected issue by his scholars.

"Reading" is understood in two ways: how the poet himself reads, making his readings the material of writing, and how we read him, now mediated by a vast interpretive archive.

Cavafy's uniqueness lies in the fact that he was a poet of the library. In most of his poems, he resembles a narrator describing the process of reading books, inscriptions, epitaphs, newspapers, photographs.

This is a writing that requires us to enter the labyrinth of reading for its understanding. This endeavor aims to meet this demand.