The Temptation of Saint Antony (Classics) - Softcover

Flaubert, Gustave; Mrosovsky, Kitty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140444106 ISBN 13: 9780140444100

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1983

Synopsis

Hallucinations and spectral visitations by people and gods from the past cause Saint Anthony to consider a number of metaphysical questions.

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Review:

"[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

[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"

"[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

-[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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0140444106
• ISBN 13: 9780140444100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304