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# The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Modern Library Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    avoid the kindle translation
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2011*

I am a big fan of the work itself, but wanted to throw in a recommendation for the Penguin Classics edition. By all means, avoid the Kindle translation, as it is crazy bad. Certain passages read strangely while a majority of them are just wrong. I'm no scholar; I just bought both versions and it's remarkable how much better the Penguin Classics edition is. This is a shame, but as the kindle is very convenient. However, the poetry and energy of Flaubert's writing comes through much better in the other translations. Trust me; you'll be glad you paid more for the print copy.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Genius
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 6, 2017*

This one is not for the faint of heart. In his letters to George Sand, Flaubert writes of spending much time in Paris, researching for this book. It's easy to see why. Poor old St. Anthony is tortured by every deity in the known universe. I spent a lot of time looking up names and places, but I learned so much I never knew about ancient world religions. The descriptions of the visitations and temptations are so vivid, they read like a classical oil painting. Delicious, but difficult.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Really Unreadable Flaubert
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2014*

SALAMMBO was declared unreadable by Cyril Connolly, but I think TENTATION has it beat by a long shot.The fruit of Flaubert's early romantic obsession and, even more clearly, his masochistic side, I don't see how any English reader could take this seriously as literature, though as a self-revealing document it's interesting.I wonder why Penguin decided to publish this translation by a woman with a Russian name (don't have the text in front of me, her first name is Kitty) instead of at least assigning the job to Baldick, Tannock, Kreilewhatshisname, their regular cadre of French translators.  I expect they thought it wasn't worth the cost when Kitty had already done the job and the book would only appeal to Flaubert completists.

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