# 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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: Biographical fiction; Christian fiction; Egypt -- Fiction; Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356 -- Fiction; Christian saints -- Fiction

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