"La raccolta degli "Studi su Dante" contiene i saggi che Erich Auerbach ha scritto dal 1929 fino alla vigilia della morte. In questi scritti definisce l'importanza del concetto di "figura" nella cultura tardo-antica e ricostruisce il complesso rapporto tra struttura e poesia nella "Divina Commedia". L'autore giunge al risultato allargando l'indagine a tutta la civiltà cristiana e mostra come l'intelligenza di Paolo, Tertulliano, Agostino o Bernardo di Chiaravalle sia propedeutica e necessaria per una lettura "globale" del capolavoro dantesco."
"Main description: Der Kulturhistoriker Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Kulturwissenschaftlern und Romanisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wie viele andere bedeutende Gelehrte emigrierte er früh aus Deutschland, um der Verfolgung durch die Nationalsozialisten zu entgehen. Bereits 1929 erschien sein Buch zu Dante, das trotz des etwas komplizierten Titels einen runden Gesamtüberblick über das dichterische Schaffen des italienischen Nationaldichters gibt. Auerbach spürte in der Göttlichen Komödie, Dantes Hauptwerk, viele Realismen auf. Rückbezüge auf die Welt des Irdischen bleiben auch im Grauen der Hölle, in der Hoffnung des Fegefeuers und in der religiösen Ekstase des Paradieses deutlich. Dante schildert beispielsweise viele Zeitgenossen und ihre Sünden, die dann entsprechend gebüßt werden. Bei Auerbach wird das Universum Dantes eindrucksvoll lebendig."
"A precursor and companion to Erich Auerbach's majestic Mimesis, Dante: Poet of the Secular World is both a comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the greatest poets and a brilliantly provocative and stimulating essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, acclaimed by writers and scholars as various as Terry Eagleton, Guy Davenport, and Alfred Kazin as one of the greatest critics of the twentieth century, argues paradoxically but powerfully that it is to Dante, supreme among Christian poets, that we owe the concept of the secular world. Dante's poetry, Auerbach shows, offers an extraordinary synthesis of the sensuous and the conceptual, and individual and the universal, that redefined notions of human character and fate and opened the way into modernity."
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Literatura italiana Historia y crítica Anterior a 1400.
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Poesía italiana Historia y crítica Anterior a 1400.
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