The Temptation of St. Antony
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist born in 1821. He played a major role in the "realist school" in French literature. His best-known work was Madame Bovary which led to a trial on the novel's alleged immorality. The Temptation of St. Antony (1874) is based on the story of the third-century...
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Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist born in 1821. He played a major role in the "realist school" in French literature. His best-known work was Madame Bovary which led to a trial on the novel's alleged immorality. The Temptation of St. Antony (1874) is based on the story of the third-century saint who lived on an isolated mountaintop in the Egyptian desert. Saint Anthony, while living in the desert, remembers former temptations and is beset by the onslaught of philosophic doubt.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781438515557 (1438515553)
Publish date: April 7th 2009
Publisher: Book Jungle
Pages no: 132
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Religion,
19th Century,
France,
French Literature
At age 24, Flaubert saw Bruegel's painting, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, and decided he would turn it into a play. Like all his literary projects, he took it very seriously. He wanted to describe a 3rd century hermit sitting on a mountain-top in the Egyptian desert and being tempted by the Devil...
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