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Religion, philosophy & society
Mimesis
Erich Auerbach
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- Author
- Erich Auerbach
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Edition
- Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition (50th anniversary ed.)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dust jacket
- No
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN
- 9780691113364
About this copy
Erich Auerbach's Mimesis is one of the great landmarks of twentieth-century literary criticism. Written in exile in Istanbul during the Second World War, it traces how writers from Homer and Dante to Stendhal and Virginia Woolf have depicted reality, and it remains a book that every serious reader of literature returns to. By Erich Auerbach.
Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. With a new introduction by Edward W. Said. Published by Princeton University Press, 2003.
This copy is the fiftieth-anniversary paperback edition, complete with Edward Said's new introduction and the expanded essay in which Auerbach answers his critics. A tidy, well-kept copy in a bright green cover featuring Max Beckmann's Departure.
Condition
- Book
- Very Good. A tight, sound binding with clean pages and a bright cover showing only light handling wear.
A pre-owned book; any wear beyond that described is minor and in keeping with its age.
Collector's notes
- A fiftieth-anniversary edition with a new introduction by Edward W. Said and a previously untranslated essay by Auerbach.
- Published by Princeton University Press, 2003 (copyright 1953, 2003).
- A later printing of the 2003 paperback edition; not a first printing.
- Cover illustration: Max Beckmann, Departure (1932-33).
A fine addition to any literary criticism shelf.
This is a pre-owned book. Please look at every photograph: they show its true condition.
