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Lerer, "Introduction"
1. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Litera-
ture, trans. Willard R. Trask ( Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press,
1953), PP. 19-20. In the original German, the passage reads: "Nun ist der
Unterschied zwischen Sage und Geschichte für einen etwas erfahrenen Leser
in den meisten Fällen leicht zu entdecken. So schwer es ist, und so sorg-
fältiger historisch-philologischer Ausbildung es bedarf, urn innerhalb, eines
geschichtlichen Berichts das Wahre vom Gefälschten oder einseitig Beleuch-
teten zu unterscheiden, so leicht ist es im allgerneinen, Sage und Geschichte
tiberhaupt auseinanderzuhalten. . . . Geschichte zu schreiben ist so schwierig,
daß die meisten Geschichtsschreiber genötigt sind, Konzessionen an die
Sagentechnik zu machen" ( Mimesis: dargestellie Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen
Literatur [Bern: A Francke, 1946], pp. 24-25).
2. "Wer etwa das Verhalten der einzelnen Menschen und Menschengrup-
pen beim Aufkommen des Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland, oder das Ver-
halten der einzelnen Völker und Staaten vor und während des gegenwärtigen
(1942) Krieges erwägt, der wird fühlen, wie schwer darstellbar geschichtliche
Gegenstände überhaupt, und wie unbrauchbar sie für die Sage sind" ( Mimesis,
p. 25).
3. In addition to the reviews of scholarship and criticism contained in the
essays in this volume, see Jan Ziolkowski's survey of the large bibliography
on Auerbach in his foreword to the paperback reprinting of Literary Language
and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, trans. Ralph Man heim
( Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993), pp. ix-xxxii, with a
comprehensive listing of works cited on pp. xxxiii-xxxix.
4. On Spitzer, see Alban Forcione, Herbert Lindenberger, and Madeline Sutherland
, eds., Leo Sbitzer: Representative Essays ( Stanford, Calif.: Stanford
University Press, 1988), especially John Freccero's sensitive foreword on Spit-

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