"The excursus upon the origin of Odysseus’ scar is not basically different from the many passages in which a newly int…"

"Many reviewers have ascribed to the book, in praise or blame, tendencies that were far removed from me: that the meth…"

""Epilegomena to Mimesis", trans. Jan Ziolkowski, in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 50t…"

"The digressions [in Homer] are not meant to keep the reader in suspense ... An episode that will increase sus…"

"[It] would have been all the easier [if] the entire story of the scar had been presented as a recollection which awak…"

"The genius of the Homeric style becomes even more apparent when it is compared with an equally ancient and equally ep…"

"In the Old Testament stories, … the sublime influence of God here reaches so deeply into the everyday that the two re…"

"[The Passion story] completely destroys the aesthetics of the separation of styles; it engenders a new elevated style…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"Imitar equivale a moverse i fatigarse en el wagón de un ferrocarril: nos imajinamos realizar mucho i no hacemos más q…"