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Mimesis by E. Auerbach
This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive and impassioned response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich.Ranging over works in Greek Latin Spanish French Italian German andEnglish Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparativeliterature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism in his ownday and ours. »
This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive and impassioned response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich.Ranging over works in Greek Latin Spanish French Italian German andEnglish Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparativeliterature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism in his ownday and ours. »
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