Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 5: La tentation de saint Antoine

by Gustave Flaubert

"Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 5: La tentation de saint Antoine" by Gustave Flaubert is a prose narrative published in 1874. Alone in the desert, the hermit Saint Antoine confronts a series of troubling visions: temptations of lust and power, his disciple questioning scriptural contradictions, and revelations of the universe's secrets. Through vivid, symbolic tableaux, this work blends the fourth-century Greco-Latin world with modern theories, following one man's odyssey without movement as he faces the demons of memory and desire.