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The Temptation of St. Anthony
Gustave Flaubert
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[Pg 15]
(He turns the leaves over rapidly.)
"Ah! here it is:"
'And the Queen of Saba, having heard of the fame of Solomon in the name of the Lord, came to try him with hard questions.'[5]
"How did she hope to tempt him? The Devil indeed sought to tempt Jesus! But Jesus triumphed because he was God; and Solomon, perhaps, owing this knowledge of magic! It is sublime—that science! For the world—as a philosopher once explained it to me, forms a whole, of which all parts mutually influence one another, like the organs of one body. It is science which enables us to know the natural loves and natural repulsions of all things, and to play upon them?... Therefore, it is really possible to modify what appears to be the immutable order of the universe?"
(Then the two shadows formed behind him. . . Read More
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Even after a century and a half The Temptation of Saint Antony continues to strike with its novelty and beauty…
It is in the Thebaïd, on the heights of a mountain, where a platform, shaped like a crescent, is surrounded by huge stones.
The Hermit’s cell occupies the background. It is built of mud and
This pandemoniac junk-shop of solitude
- Baudelaire
PRINCE AND FLAUBERT
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Brilliant and maddening...maddening and brilliant. I have not and will never read anything quite like it - a work of pure literary imagination, in the shape of a play, as St. Anthony suffers innumerable temptations that swirl across the text like visions from a nightmare. Flaubert worked on this for
Bodler je „Iskušenje Svetog Antonija” nazvao ulaskom u „tajnu odaju Floberovog uma”. Doduše, Bodler nije mogao da zna delo u celosti, već samo u vidu odlomaka objavljenih u časopisu, jer je Flober na „Iskušenju” radio 25 godina, te su mnogi, poput Bodlera, preminuli čekajući da esteta, poznat po tom
The temptation of Saint Anthony is Flaubert's entire life’s 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 hasn’t
Ce livre aurait bien pu finir dans les flammes, si Flaubert avait suivi l’avis de ses amis après la lecture qu’il leur fit de son manuscrit. Fort heureusement pour nous, l’auteur n'en fit rien et, bien au contraire, retravailla son œuvre continument, si bien qu'elle devint, selon ses propres termes,
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 third century hermit sitting on a mountain top in the Egyptian desert and being tempted by the Dev