The Devil in the Flesh by Radiguet, Raymond

The Devil in the Flesh (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780241372616)

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The Devil in the Flesh by Radiguet, Raymond

The Devil in the Flesh

$16.00
The Devil in the Flesh by Radiguet, Raymond

The Devil in the Flesh

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The tragic and complicated French romance about a teenage boy who seduces the wife of a soldier during World War I--and one of the most startling literary debuts of all time

A Penguin Classic

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 who is 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 can only hurtle towards tragedy.

Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, and loosely based on his life, The Devil in the Flesh became an instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius, before dying tragically at the age of twenty. It is a work of startling imagery and subtle beauty about power, betrayal, and passion that expresses all the anguish and joy of adolescence.

Author: Raymond Radiguet
ISBN-10: 0241372615
ISBN-13: 9780241372616
Publisher: Penguin Group
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2020
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 0.50d
By Raymond Radiguet
By Raymond Radiguet
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Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) was born near Paris. He dropped out of high school 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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