Erich Auerbach

Quotes

• “"Epilegomena to Mimesis", trans. Jan Ziolkowski, in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 50th anniversary edition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003 (reprinted 2013), p. 570”
• “In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable.”
• “A scene like Peter's denial fits into no antique genre. It is too serious for comedy, too contemporary and everyday for tragedy, politically too insignificant for history—and the form which was given it is one of such immediacy that its like does not exist in the literature of antiquity.”

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Key facts

Born

9 November 1892, Berlin, German Empire

Died

13 October 1957 (1957-10-13) (aged 64), Wallingford, Connecticut , U.S.

Occupations

Literary critic , philologist

Alma mater

University of Greifswald

Thesis

Zur Technik der Frührenaissancenovelle in Italien und Frankreich (1921)

Doctoral advisor

Erhard Lommatzsch

Institutions

University of Marburg , Istanbul University , Pennsylvania State University , Yale University

Doctoral students

Fredric Jameson

Notable works

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

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Erich Auerbach um 1930.jpg

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