The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library Classics (eBook))

by Gustave Flaubert

Lafcadio Hearn (Translator) and Michel Foucault (Introduction)

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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.”
  • ISBN10 0375759123
  • ISBN13 9780375759123
  • Publish Date 8 January 2002 (first published 1 September 1978)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 June 2010
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Modern Library Inc