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Title	:	The Temptation of St. Antony
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	June 30th 1983 by Penguin Classics (first published 1874)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. Religion. 19th Century

The Temptation of St. Antony Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	La Tentation de Saint Antoine
ISBN:	0140444106 (ISBN13: 9780140444100)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Saint Antony of Egypt, Ammonaria, King Nebuchadnezzar, The Queen of Sheba
Setting:	Egypt

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Sara wrote: "OH I'M JUST GOING TO HAVE TO STOP READING YOUR WONDERFUL REVIEWS BECAUSE i CAN'T POSSIBLY READ THE BOOKS i HAVE AND YOU MAKE ME WANT TO

I shamefacedly admit that I don't read a lot of work that wasn't originally written in English. The reason being that I almost always feel like something is lost in translation and that bugs the shit out of me. For some authors, though, one has to make an exception.As far as I can tell, from my admittedly embarrassing monolingual viewpoint, this is a good translation. It reads fluidly and naturally and, from what I've read about Flaubert's writing style, seems to be true to the author's

This is a very strange book. I read the Penguin edition, which has a +50 page introduction. I learned that Flaubert worked on this book, on and off, for 25 years and wrote several different versions before arriving at this one. The intro explained that the Antony in this book is the polar opposite to the one portrayed by the Church Fathers. The former is portrayed as a genuine saint, the latter as a perpetrator of The Seven Deadly Sins.Flaubert considered this his best book, even more than

The Creation of Literary SpaceMahlers last symphony is about the history of European music - if it is about anything at all. Velasquezs painting Las Meninas is not primarily about the Infanta princess but about the life of an artist in the royal Spanish court of the 17th century. And Flauberts Temptation is only incidentally about the Egyptian saint; its real subject is books and the way they affect our human existence. All these works expand what constitutes artistic endeavour. They create new

"The world is the work of a God in delirium!"Flaubert's last work published in his lifetime. Very interesting take on the views of the Catholic church and the early days of Christianity in the ancient world.

The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a work of stunning literary as opposed to theological erudition. Flaubert carefully reviews the pagan religious systems of Greece, Rome and Egypt and touches on seemingly every significant Christian heresy active during the life time of Saint Anthony. Among the ones that I could recognize were Apollinarism, Montanism, Gnosticism, Docetism, Melchisedechism, Monophysitism, Nestorianism and Donatism. He may well discuss many more that I cannot recognize. Finally,

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