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The Temptation of St. Antony

Gustave Flaubert

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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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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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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Title	:	The Temptation of St. Antony
Author	:	Gustave Flaubert
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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

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Ratings: 3.82 From 2547 Users | 131 Reviews

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3.5 stars.My head is still hurting! It's said that Flaubert had read nearly 1500 books for Bouvard and Pécuchet, I wouldn't be surprised if he read just as many for this one!



The temptation of Saint Anthony is Flaubert's entire lifes work. He had had the first idea of it in 1845, in Genoa, Italy, by watching a painting by Breughel, The Temptations of Saint Anthony. Besides, in the descriptions of the book, we find many of Breughel's paintings. Since that time, he hasnt stopped thinking about it.In 1846, Flaubert launched into immense readings, without any apparent goal, but all of which gravitated more or less around the Greco-Latin antiquity and led by infinite

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

This book was interesting to me knowing that there really was a Saint Anthony who lived in the third century A.D. Anthony's parents were wealthy landowners and when they died all their wealth went to Anthony, and he was left with a sister to provide for. However, he decided to follow the words of Jesus, who had said: "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven; and come, follow Me", Matt. 19:21. He then gave away all his property

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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