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The Temptation of Saint Anthony

The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gustave Flaubert, Lafcadio Hearn (Translator), Michel Foucault (Introduction by)Series:Modern Library Classics (Paperback)Publish date:2002-01-08Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375759123ISBN-10:375759123UPC:9780375759123Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Classics, ReligiousSize:8.64 x 5.54 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCM2MR8JQ9
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."
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780375759123ISBN-10:375759123UPC:9780375759123Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Classics, ReligiousSize:8.64 x 5.54 x 0.73 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCM2MR8JQ9
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a philosopher and the author of Madness and Civilization, The Order of Things, and The History of Sexuality, among other books.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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