The TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY
By GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
| Translated by Lafcadio Hearn | Introduction by Elizabeth Bisland |
This translation of the great French masterpiece, which has been called "The Epic of the Human Soul's Search for Truth," was recently discovered among Lafcadio Hearn's posthumous papers. The whole tendency of Hearn's tastes fitted him especially of all writers to turn that masterpiece into its true English equivalent.
The tortured Saint is whirled by vertiginous visions through cycles of man's efforts to know why? whence? whither? He assists at the terrifying rites of Mithra, the prostrations of serpent-worshippers of fire, of light, of the Greek's deified forces of nature, of the Northern enthronement of brute force and war. Plunges into every heresy and philosophy, sees the orgies, the flagellations, the self-mutilations, the battles and furies of sects, each convinced it has found the answer to the Great Question. His experiences startlingly reproduce the scientific and spiritual researches of the man of to-day.
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