9780691113364
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
Erich Auerbach; Edward Auerbach
ISBN 13: 9780691113364
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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"There is no other work in contemporary literary criticism, known to me, that is comparable to ['Mimesis'] in scope, in analytical and historical richness; it is actually a history of European literature from the 'Odyssey' to 'Ulysses' and shows a quiet mastery of all the literatures of the West. I can never pick up this book without learning from it and without marveling at the penetration with which Auerbach's handling of his subject, the different forms by which the great European writers have shaped their idea of reality, leads him to a new understanding of all postclassical literature."
Alfred Kazin, American Scholar
Review:"Erich Auerbach begins his study by examining famous episodes in Homer and the Bible. He concludes by analyzing passages in Virginia Woolf and Proust. And his examinations include Tacitus, Petronius, St. Augustine, St. Francis, Dante, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Montaigne, Saint-Simon, Goethe, Schiller, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, among many others....the compass and the richness of the book can hardly be exaggerated."
Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review
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