Studi su Dante

This neglected and almost unknown work, to which we have access only thanks to the New York Review of Books' quixotic and impeccably chosen list of forgotten classics, is the most fundamental metaphysical defense of literature ever written. And the great thing is that it is totally practical, an ins Leggi tutto

I admire Auerbach's "Mimesis" more than any other work of literary criticism that comes to mind. This book contains a brief discussion of one episode in Dante's epic - quite illuminating, I think. So I decided to read his slender volume on Dante, whom Auerbach admired more ardently than any other wri Leggi tutto

For chapters 1, 3 and the conclusion alone, I'd give this book 5 stars, but sadly 2, 4 and 5 are a little tedious. That said, it'd be a great book for anyone who's interested in Dante, but hasn't read him, and I'm probably being overly harsh on chapter 2. Chapter one sets out Auerbach's slightly odd Leggi tutto

saggio bello, interessante, completo, che mi ha aiutata a comprendere meglio la poetica dantesca, il modo di concepire i personaggi della sua opera e l’uso di simboli e particolari termini.

I can think of no other book in recent memory I both wanted and expected to like as much as this one, yet which I found didn't live up to my hopes. Mimesis was, I thought, just a stunning work of criticism, and its chapter on The Divine Comedy did more to illuminate the entire work through the exami Leggi tutto

Don't let anybody tell you that literary criticism is boring, literary criticism is hype as hell. I was leant this once upon a time in early 2020 when I was trying to write a Dante paper for class, and was told to keep it afterward. I figured there wasn't going to be a better time to give it a go tha Leggi tutto

This book was really written for a reader with a deep understanding of the history and mechanics of language and poetry. It offers little to a lay reader who simply enjoys poets such as Dante written in the readers vernacular. The first few pages were insightful, the next 50 frustrating. I didn’t ma Leggi tutto

Auerbach ha un modo di portarci per mano attraverso i suoi studi sul Sommo Poeta che è tutto particolare, tanti dicono che questo autore in particolare sia praticamente incomprensibile ma io credo che questa difficoltà sia creata dallo stile denso che l’autore adotta sia qui sia in “Mimesis” che non Leggi tutto