Temptation of Saint Anthony

"All in all, this is not everybody's book. But Flaubert himself judged it to be 'the work of all my life'...The book is important because here a man who wrote other much better books sets down the revelation of his tormented mind: lyrical, learned, sadistic, passionately searching for some transcendent enduring ecstasy, but ending in the ancient and unsurprising conclusion, 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'...Not every reader will find [the author's] own prose style memorable, but she has done Flaubert proud."Flaubert, Gustave is the author of 'Temptation of Saint Anthony', published 2001 under ISBN 9780375759123 and ISBN 0375759123.