what am I in for?

>>9655148

a book

>>9655148
Memeses

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>>9655148
looks like something called "Mimesis" by Erich Auerbach

>>9655148
A damn good book if you've read all of the texts he concerns himself with in his theories and criticisms.

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Prologue.

yo this sounds good - someone post some info

>>9655148
You don't really need to read all of it but the first chapter and a few others I would consider essential

Dank mimes

>>9655701
This. The essays get less and less interesting as he settles into his low vs high style theme, so by the second half you'll want to read those about books you're familiar with and are interested in only.

>>9655655
Large extracts from the examples he considers. Among them Petronius, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare ... to Stendahl, the Goncourts, Virginia Woolf. Some not so common instances in the first half if memory serves. Auerbach has a mesmerizing style.

>>9655148
One of the best works of literary criticism ever written.