The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Brossura

Flaubert, Gustave

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ISBN 10: 0375759123 ISBN 13: 9780375759123

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2002

Riassunto

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.”

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Recensione:

“[The Temptation of Saint Anthony] calls up not only the great problems of knowledge, but the real riddles of life . . . and it confirms the awareness of our perplexity in the mysteriousness that reigns everywhere.”
—Sigmund Freud

L'autore:

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a philosopher and the author of Madness and Civilization, The Order of Things, and The History of Sexuality, among other books.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375759123
• ISBN 13: 9780375759123
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288