by Gustave Flaubert · Editores mexicanos unidos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484031833
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«La tentación de San Antonio» is the philosophical novel by Gustave Flaubert, published by Editores Mexicanos Unidos in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Saint Anthony, a fourth-century anchorite, through a night of visions in the desert: heresies, gods and fantastic creatures parade before him and test his faith. Flaubert shapes a philosophical dream in which devotion, doubt and desire converse, spanning the religions and ideas of the era.
The work was originally published in 1874 under the title «La Tentation de Saint Antoine». This Spanish edition dates from 1998 and its cover assigns it to the collection «Clásicos de siempre».
For readers interested in Gustave Flaubert, nineteenth-century French literature and religious and philosophical thought.
Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.
