Erich Auerbach Quotes

• To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

  Erich Auerbach

  Writing, Technique, Difficult

  Erich Auerbach (1957). “Mimesis”

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• 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.

  Erich Auerbach

  Rebel, Stories, Favors

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Erich Auerbach

  Men, Individuality, Individualism

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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