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
Mythologies
The dialogic imagination
Literary theory
S/Z
Illuminations
Anatomy of criticism
Against Interpretation
The Uses of Literature
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The sense of an ending
The act of reading
Narratology
On Literature
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Keywords
Fearful symmetry
Les testaments trahis
Axel's castle
Real presences
The well wrought urn
The liberal imagination
The great code
Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
Homo sacer