Devil In The Flesh Radiguet
As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields and on river banks. When she receives letters from her husband, they burn them together.
Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends and neighbours. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy. Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a work of startling imagery and subtle beauty.
This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Fay Weldon. 'A triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece.'
'--New Statesman'Christopher Moncrieff 's new translation carries Radiguet's frank, staccato prose well. The confessional honesty of the language is what makes the book both shocking and sad.' '--Times Literary Supplement''The Devil in the Flesh 'is unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No adolescent be- fore Radiguet has delivered to us the secret of that age: we have all falsified it.' --Francois Mauriac'Although Radiguet was so young, he had managed to zone in on the perversity of human love with an accuracy which anticipates, or is in parallel development with, Freud.. His insights compel us to keep reading, in the unpleasant knowledge that we may learn something, possibly even about ourselves..
One of the measures of the book's brilliance is that its morality, or its amorality, is not clear-cut.' '--The Guardian'A masterpiece of promise.' --Jean Cocteau.' .a triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece.' --'New Statesman'Christopher Moncrieff's new translation carries Radiguet's frank, staccato prose well.
The confessional honesty of the language is what makes the book both shocking and sad.' --'Times Literary Supplement'A century on, this novella still has the power to unsettle.' --'The Guardian'. Raymond Radiguet was born near Paris in 1903. He dropped out of his lycee in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature, and associated himself with the Modernist set, befriending Picasso, Max Jacob, Jean Hugo, Juan Gris and especially Jean Cocteau, who became his mentor. His first novel, Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh), was published in 1923 and became a runaway bestseller in France.
Radiguet died of typhoid fever the same year, at the age of twenty. His second novel, Le bal du Comte d'Orgel (Count d'Orgel's Ball) was published posthumously in 1924.
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For other uses, see. Le Diable au corps ( The Devil in the Flesh) is an early 1923 novel by Parisian literary prodigy. The story of a young married woman who has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy while her husband is away fighting at the front provoked scandal in a country that had just been through. Though Radiguet denied it, it was established later that the story was in large part autobiographical. Critics, who initially despised the intense publicity campaign for the book's release (something not normally associated with works of literary merit at the time), were finally won over by the quality of Radiguet's writing and his sober, objective style.
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Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923). In early 1923, Radiguet published his first and most famous novel, Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh).
Le Diable au Corps is also the title of one of two operettas, and of five operas, composed by Italian composer in 1884. It has been adapted several times for television and the screen. References [ ].