Erich Auerbach

Standard Name: Auerbach, Erich

Connections

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Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Erich Auerbach chose a passage from early in To the Lighthouse, which he calls The Brown Stocking, to close his influential work Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946 (which...

Timeline

1946: Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German,...

Writing climate item

1946

Critic Erich Auerbach published, in German, the influential study which became in its English translation, 1953, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature. He wrote it at Istanbul, as a Jewish refugee...

Texts

Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis. Princeton University Press, 1974.