Mimesis

February 12, 2014 by joachim

I discovered Mimesis, by Erich Auerbach, which is THE authoritative examination of the literature of the Western world. Its subtitle is “The Representation of reality in Western literature,” it was first published in 1953, and it runs over 550 pages of the most wonderful interesting prose. A passage of a text he wishes to analyze or compare is always reproduced in its original language — starting in antiquity in Latin — followed by his English translation, followed by erudition of the most meticulous kind.
[Mimesis, transl. from German by Willard R. Track, with an introduction by Edward W. Said, Princeton University Press 2003]

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