Temptation of Saint Anthony

A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists <b>The Temptation of Saint Anthony</b> 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. <p/>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.