Unreal City
Robert Liddell
Paperback
(Peter Owen Publishers, May 1, 1993)
Unreal City is one of Robert Liddell's greatest works, describing the Alexandrian poet, Cavafy, at the end of his life. Told through the eyes of Charles, a timid and withdrawn Englishman, who finds himself in Alexandria at the end of the Second World War and who allows the great poet to introduce him to the unreal city.