What to Read After Mimesis
Readers who loved Mimesis by Erich Auerbach keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mimesis is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mimesis
The Dialogic Imagination
Literary Theory
Mythologies
Illuminations
S/z
Anatomy of Criticism
Against Interpretation
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Uses of Literature
The Sense of an Ending
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
Narratology
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Real Presences
The Well Wrought Urn
Art of the Novel
The Liberal Imagination
Les testaments trahis
Fearful Symmetry
On Literature
The Great Code
Axel's Castle
Keywords
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism