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
Literary Theory
The Dialogic Imagination
S/Z
Illuminations
Anatomy of Criticism
Against Interpretation
The Mirror and the Lamp
The Uses of Literature
Lectures on Literature. Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Stevenson, Proust, Kafka, Joyce
The Sense of an Ending
Narratology
The Act of Reading
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent
Keywords
Real Presences
Art of the Novel
The Liberal Imagination
Fearful Symmetry
The Well Wrought Urn
On Literature
Axel's Castle
The Great Code
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism