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The Temptation of Saint Anthony

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Michel Foucault
Translated by Lafcadio Hearn

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Michel Foucault
Translated by Lafcadio Hearn

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Michel Foucault
Translated by Lafcadio Hearn

By Gustave Flaubert
Introduction by Michel Foucault
Translated by Lafcadio Hearn

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Jan 08, 2002 | ISBN 9780375759123

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Aug 22, 2012 | ISBN 9780307824134

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    About The Temptation of Saint Anthony

    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.”

    About The Temptation of Saint Anthony

    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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    About Gustave Flaubert

    Gustave Flaubert grew up in Rouen, France, and did not leave his birth city until he was 19 when he went to study law in Paris. After three years, however, Flaubert abandoned law and began writing. His first finished work was… More about Gustave Flaubert

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    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 08, 2002 | 288 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780375759123

    Category: Fiction Classics | Spiritual Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Aug 22, 2012 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780307824134

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    “[The Temptation of Saint Anthony] calls up not only the great problems of knowledge, but the real riddles of life . . . and it confirms the awareness of our perplexity in the mysteriousness that reigns everywhere.”
    —Sigmund Freud

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