Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbach
Erich Auerbachwas a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times and frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 November 1892
CountryGermany
writing technique difficult
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
men individuality young
The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
stories favors may
The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.