by Erich Auerbach · Feltrinelli · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807100314
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«Studi su Dante» is the literary criticism essay by Erich Auerbach, published by Feltrinelli in the Campi del sapere series (331 pages, in Italian).
Critical study of the work of Dante Alighieri, with special attention to the Divine Comedy. Auerbach argues that Dante's poetry, despite its religious character, anticipates modern narrative by representing the secular and the individual; he examines the poem's structure, its characters and its influence on the conception of human destiny, in an analysis that interweaves the sensory and the conceptual and prepares the theses of his famous Mimesis.
Italian edition of 1996 with preface by Dante Della Terza; translation from German by Maria Luisa De Pieri Bonino. Original work of 1929, published as Dante als Dichter der Irdischen Welt.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century literary criticism, Dante studies and the history of ideas.
Erich Auerbach was a German philologist, comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times frequently cited as a classic in the study of realism in literature. Along with Leo Spitzer, Auerbach is widely recognized as one of the foundational figures of comparative literature.
