The Temptation of saint Antoine
the Temptation of saint Antoine is a Prose poem of Gustave Flaubert (1849-1856-1870), published in 1874.
Haunted as of 1835 by this topic that the Caïn of Byron and the Faust of Goethe had already illustrated, Flaubert wrote three versions of this long cosmic poem where the Anachorète of the Thébaïde dialog with successive appearances. Antoine, evoking the too long-lived memories of its past, knows démoniaques temptations again: visions of luxury, the seductions of the capacity or pleasure request it; more disconcerting still is the appearance of its disciple, Hilarion, which introduces “all the gods to him, all the rites, all the prayers, all oracles”, underlining contradictions of the Writings. And when, under the name of Sciences, the demon reveals in Antoine the secrecies of the universe, the anchorite aspires one moment to melt himself in the matter of which he sees the extraordinary expansion; but, in the disc of the sun which rises, resplendit the face of Christ, original Alliance of the evocation of the graeco-latin world of the 4th century and the statement of the modern theories, this work symbolic system contains tables of a great plastic beauty.
the Temptation of Saint Antoine is also a painting of El Salvador Dalí in 1946 illustrating this poem.
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