芝加哥大学日前出版维克多·布朗伯特(Victor Brombert)的专著《赞扬反英雄》(In Praise of Antiheroes),此书有个副标题为“现代欧洲文学中的人物和主题1830—1980”。约翰·萨瑟兰(John Sutherland)为此写了书评,文章开头即说:假如向有点年纪的文学学者发问,有史以来哪本批评著作最具英雄色彩,他们会说是埃里克·奥尔巴赫写的《模拟》(Mimesis),这本全景式的著作覆盖三千年欧洲文学,从荷马写到伍尔芙,成书的 The University of Chicago recently published In Praise of Antiheroes, a book by Victor Brombert with a subtitle entitled “Characters and Themes in Modern European Literature 1830-1980.” John Sutherland wrote a book review for this purpose, beginning with the article: "If you ask the younger literary scholar who has the most heroic touch of criticism ever, they would say that Eric Orr Bach’s Mimesis, a panoramic book covering three thousand years of European literature, wrote from Homer to Woolf, into a book