Comparative literature as an autonomous discipline has the ultimate aim to appreciate all the effects of that great artistic phenomenon called literature. Since the mid 19th century, when both literature in its modern sense and comparative literary studies were born, our discipline has nourished the tendency to analytically examine literary works based on comparison. Although comparison as a method can in no way be limited with its literary function, as it is apparent from the fact that almost all scientific disciplines, from mathematics and natural sciences to humanities, have put it into use according to their own purposes and priorities, its intuitive value has best been established in literature. Analogies, free associations and allusions are literary strategies, which both create new means of comparison and explore unique landscapes of thinking. In a sense, comparative literature is an invitation to understand this most literary of the tools, and reflects it back to itself so that people can see its tremendous effects in an ever-new light.