In this case, I don't think it's possible to answer without access to the original context, and there doesn't seem to be an electronic version of the book. I wo

In this case, I don't think it's possible to answer without access to the original context, and there doesn't seem to be an electronic version of the book. I would also note that the book has been translated from the German, so the exact word choice hasn't been made by the original author. Here's, maybe, a more comprehensible (but difficult) segment from the beginning of the book (from Amazon's preview): The easiest formula that thematizes the relation of Flaubert's work to the Evangel, Scripture, is perhaps this: in the name of the Cross, the Gospel--the "good tidings"--is crossed out. His oeuvre is thus a kind of "non-Gospel" or dys-angelion-- a body of "bad tidings"; it testifies against the New Testament. History proves the promise of salvation to be a lie; but history is nevertheless absolutely determined by the New Testament, since it is nothing but per-version, its per-versio-- its reversal. Only against the backdrop of this crossed-out promise of the unheard-of love of the New Testament, which is affirmed completely, does history make sense and reveal its horrible truth.