: Gustave Flaubert
: Three Short Works The Dance of Death, The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, A Simple Soul
: The Floating Press
: 9781775417675
: 1
: CHF 7.40
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
The three works in this book are each strikingly different. Death, Satan and Nero (the fifth Roman emperor) converse in a prose poem, a Medieval saint encounters trial and struggle before attaining divinity, the life of a selfless maid in 19th-century France shows the horror of true altruism.