Some Assembly Required: Suspending and Extending the Book with Cavafy’s Collections

Stroebel, William

doi:10.1353/bh.2018.0009

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2018

DOI: 10.1353/bh.2018.0009

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Some Assembly Required: Suspending and Extending the Book with Cavafy’s Collections

William Stroebel¹

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The sole collection of verses by Jonas Ma iulis (1862( -1932, the father of modern Lithuanian poetry, went through five editions in the author's lifetime. The poet continued to improve the works of his youth until his advanced age, producing hundreds of textual variants. The first published versions of some verses, which are ranked as national classics today, cannot be considered finely crafted works by a long shot. From a retrospective point of view, one is surprised that such lengthy and tedious corrections could have yielded such nice final results, while a prospective approach might incite amazement at how the crude, primary rock of first versions could have concealed the possibility of such poetic gems. Taking a grandmotherly attitude towards his works, the author did not only polish their versification, but also applied di erent strategies throughout his rewriting process to use new editions to consolidate his own social and cultural position with the changeable standards of bibliographic codes over time. The problem editors of the Maironis' posthumous editions face is that the authorial editions of his works di er in title, textual variants, and arrangement. As this article argues, both Maironis' high standing in the Lithuanian cultural landscape and the elusive expectation of stability and comprehensiveness have discouraged editors to plunge into the dynamic nature of Maironis' authorial manipulations up until today.

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Some Assembly Required: Suspending and Extending the Book with Cavafy’s Collections

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On the Threshold of Editorship. Or From Collection to Oeuvre

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