Chapter VII

THE CHIMERA AND THE SPHINX 151 ILLUSTRATIONS "DO NOT RESIST, I AM OMNIPOTENT!" (See page 157) Frontispiece HE LETS GO THE TORCH IN ORDER TO EMBRACE THE HEAP 26

THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY By Gustave Flaubert Translated By Lafcadio Hearn Illustrations By Odilon Redon CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ARGUMENT THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY I II III IV V VI VII NOTE ADDENDA ILLUSTRATIONS ... through the long hair half hiding her face, I thought that I could recognize Ammonaria ... 6 Saint Anthony: Help me, O my God! 16 And there are columns of basalt everywhere,... The light falls from the vaults above 38 there is a sweetness in my kisses as of a fruit dissolving within thy heart ... 58 ... a long blood-colored chrysalis 100 ... the flowers fall and the head of a python appears 105 ... and in the darkness beside him people are praying... 107 ... and he beholds an arid plain, mamillated with knolls 113 She drags a black sponge from her bosom, covers it with kisses ... 115 I have buried myself in solitude, like the rhinoceros. I dwelt in the tree behind me 119 Helena - Ennoia 125 ... instantly arise three goddesses 157 Intelligence became mine! I became the Buddha. 165 ... and eyes without heads were floating like mollusks 167 I, the first consciousness of Chaos, arose from the abyss that I might harden matter, and give a law unto forms 168 Here is the Good Goddess, the Idæan of the mountains 178 I am still the Great Isis!—none has yet lifted my veil! My fruit is the Sun! 188 ... he falls head foremost into the abyss 206 Anthony: What is the purpose of all that? The Devil: There is no purpose. 224 The Old Woman: Of what art thou afraid?—a wide, black hole! Perhaps it is a void! 235 Death: Mine irony depasseth all others! 240 Death: It is I that make thee awful! Let us intertwine! 241 Anthony: Somewhere there must be primordial figures, whose bodily forms are only symbols 242 I myself have sometime beheld in the sky, as it were, forms of spirits 242 The Sphinx: ... and yet my gaze, which naught can deviate, remains fixed, gazing through all intervening things, upon a horizon that none may reach. The Chimera: I am light and joyous! 245 The Sciapods: The head as low as possible—That is the secret of happiness. 249 The beasts of the sea round as wineskins 258 Divers peoples inhabit the countries of the Ocean 258 Day at last appears ... in the midst thereof and in the very disk of the sun, beams the face of Jesus Christ. 260

A SIMPLE SOUL By Gustave Flaubert

CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V

SALAMMBÔ By Gustave Flaubert

CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE FEAST CHAPTER II AT SICCA CHAPTER III SALAMMBÔ CHAPTER IV BENEATH THE WALLS OF CARTHAGE CHAPTER V TANITH CHAPTER VI HANNO CHAPTER VII HAMILCAR BARCA CHAPTER VIII THE BATTLE OF THE MACARAS CHAPTER IX IN THE FIELD CHAPTER X THE SERPENT CHAPTER XI IN THE TENT CHAPTER XII THE AQUEDUCT