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Temptation of Saint Anthony

by Flaubert, Gustave

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A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, The Temptation of Saint Anthony was Flaubert's lifelong work, thirty years in the making. Based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert, it is a fantastical rendering of one night during which Anthony is besieged by carnal temptations and philosophical doubt.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic reproduces the distinguished Lafcadio Hearn translation, which translator Richard Sieburth calls "a splendid period piece from one of America's premier translators of nineteenth-century French prose. In Lafcadio Hearn's Latinate rendering, Flaubert's experimental drama of the modern consciousness reads as weirdly as its oneiric original."

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  • Modern Library Brand
  • Jan 8, 2002 Pub Date:
  • 0375759123 ISBN-10:
  • 9780375759123 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 8.48 in * 0.65 in * 5.51 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: