First edition of Auerbach’s influential main work: ‘Mimesis. The Representation of Reality in Western Literature’ . Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), important Romanist and cultural philosopher. In 1936, under the political pressure of the persecution of Jews, Auerbach and his family emigrated to Turkey, where he taught at the University of Istanbul. In 1947 Auerbach emigrated to the USA, where he remained throughout his life. Auerbach, along with Karl Vossler, Leo Spitzer and Ernst Robert Curtius, were among the most important representatives of his field. His main work Mimesis, written in exile in Turkey between 1942 and 1945, is still one of the fundamental works of western literary studies
Mimesis. Dargestellte Wirchlichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur – FIRST EDITION. . Bern: A.Francke AG. Verlag, 1946. Bound in fine contemporary half calf with marbled sidepaper. 503 pp. Names of previous owners to inner cover else clean
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Soft Cell recorded a song that nicked its title from this book, a song about a man “who goes to Los Angeles and just sees how many people he can have in a weekend. It’s a soundtrack of loveless sex…”
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A rare First Edition of Ulysses from Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Co, a very good copy of the 11th Printing – the final version before the printing of the novel left Paris and moved elsewhere. The book was still banned in the States until 1934. This copy was Børge (Boerge) Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The manuscript had disappeared, apparently confiscated and later lost by Danish police, who got ahead of their German colleagues by lovingly caring for the Danish Communists. In all a highly collectable copy.
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London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939. Royal8vo. Original red cloth with overall well preserved jacket. This copy was Børge Houmann’s copy (not signed). Houmann, a prominent Danish communist and resistance fighter, was working a translation of Joyce’s novel Ulysses, but tragically could not find the translation after the War. The…
