"He who represents the course of a human life, or a sequence of events extending over a prolonged period of time, and represents it from beginning to end, must prune and isolate arbitrary. Life has always long since begun, and it is always still going on. And the people whose story the author is telling experience much more than he can ever hope to tell. But the things that happen to a few individuals in the course of a few minutes, hours, possibly even days - these one can hope to report with reasonable completeness." (Auerbach in Mimesis)"The work is a strikingly successful combination of philology, stylistics, history of ideas and sociology, of meticulous learning and artistic taste, of historical imagination and awareness of our own age." (from A History of Modern Criticism 1970-1950, Volume 7, 1991)
Review:
The literature work is not simply record a historical event or the surface things, but it should be include some deeply significant meanings which underneath the context. Besides, the depiction of every day life reflects the reality. The connection of literature and society and history is a new concept of realism which emphasizes on the relationship between literary works and the reality. His view of mimesis refers the inner consciousness.
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