%0 Journal Article
%T Representing Reality: Erich Auerbach¡¯s Concept of Memory
%A Mediha G£¿BENL£¿
%J -
%D 2018
%X This article presents an analysis of Erich Auerbach¡¯s concept of memory as a method of representing reality ¨C as ¡°recovery of lost realities in remembrance¡± ¨C through Virginia Woolf¡¯s novel To the Lighthouse and Marcel Proust¡¯s novel In Search of Lost Times (1913¨C1927). In the last chapter of Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Auerbach demonstrates that use of a first-person narrator, an important characteristic of the modern novel, means at the same time a preoccupation with the literary depiction of memory. As a form of consciousness depiction, memory is ¡°the memorizing consciousness,¡± comparable to the metaphor of a flash (Benjamin, 1977, p. 253) that enlightens the sub-conscious. Defining Proust¡¯s literary depiction, called by Auerbach a ¡°recovery of lost realities,¡± and by his friend Walter Benjamin ¡°visualization¡± of memory, one recognizes an interesting analogy between Benjamin and Auerbach¡¯s concepts of memory
%K Erich Auerbach
%K Erinnerung
%K Mimesis
%K Wirklichkeitsdarstellung
%K moderner Roman
%U http://dergipark.org.tr/iulitera/issue/41293/499026