Reading Cavafy or Cavafy Reading or Cavafy’s Readings or Cavafy Reading Cavafy have been aspects of scholarly interpretive interests regarding either the author C.P. Cavafy or applied textual strategies. Relatively little attention has been paid to the reader on the opposite end of the chain of literary communication. The dominant paradigm of literary criticism regarding Cavafy’s texts has been for a long time the inference of the authorial intention by interpretive acts of the literary critic. Fragments of Cavafy Reading have been puzzled together to shed some light on the author’s poetically functioning brain. But — as recent approaches to the complex phenomenon of reading in Cavafy have shown — inferring some sort of ‘meaning’ can also be regarded as based on cooperative acts between reader and text and on shared knowledge about the procedures of interpreting texts.