Mitologia di Auerbach

Mimesis is a work that transcends the barriers of time and space. Wrote in a delicate historical moment, the book is imbued with the author’s lived experience. But the question that has recently come out is: if Auerbach had written it elsewhere, would Mimesis have been as successful? In a work that proposes a parable of the modifications in Western literature from ancient to modern, Auerbach seems to remain hooked on a teleological image of European civilization, a civilization that is now handing over the keys of its kingdom to posterity.