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1892–1957 Germany

Erich Auerbach (9 November 1892 – 13 October 1957) was a philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature.

Germany
Academics

Also known as: Eric Auerbach

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In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two realms of the sublime and the everyday are not only actually unseparated but basically inseparable.

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946)

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