{"product_id":"the-temptation-of-saint-anthony","title":"The Temptation of Saint Anthony","description":"A book that deeply influenced the young Freud and was the inspiration for many artists, \u003cb\u003eThe Temptation of Saint Anthony\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\"\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0375759123\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780375759123\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Flaubert, Gustave, Hearn, Lafcadio, Foucault, Michel\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Modern Library\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jan 2002)","offer_id":46079780290757,"sku":"9780375759123","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780375759123.jpg?v=1776031762","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-temptation-of-saint-anthony","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}