Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2025
This chapter considers Auerbach’s lifelong grappling with Dante’s poetry. For Auerbach, Dante is the first voice of European poetry neither because he offers a unified and integrated aesthetic, nor because he imagines Europe as a stable edifice, but because he creates an art that always surpasses its own borders. Dante consequently for Auerbach becomes a figure for the movement from medieval to modern generally, a moment when the “fulfillment” promised in medieval figural interpretation turns into a historical figure and makes it possible to imagine a future otherwise.
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