Matthias’s Reviews > Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature > Status Update

I’m too dumb to properly appreciate this book, which is of course true generally, but in this case the editors bear at least some of the fault: “o ho ho, you don’t have a passable knowledge of Middle French? fuck you, one passage translated per chapter is more than enough for you.” Appreciating what remnants I can glean from a rich harvest, though!