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.

Modern Classics the Devil in the Flesh

Literature & Fiction

Raymond, Radiguet

Literary

Penguin Classic

Count D'Orgel

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

He belonged to the solemn race of men whose lives unfold too quickly to their close.?Jean Cocteau The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of sixteen, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. The liaison soon becomes a scadal and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening - even when the affair reaches its tragic climax. In the film Le Diable au Corps (with Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle), Claude Autant-Lara recreated this story of the First World War with nostalgic tenderness. His sensitive dramatization treats the affair with such delicacy that many critics consider the love scenes to be among the most beautiful ever photographed. The film won the Grand Prix and the International Critics Prize. Raymond Radiguet wrote The Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, about his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty. His only other novel is Comte d'Orgel, also available from Marion Boyars Publishers. "...a triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece..."?New Statesman

The Devil in the Flesh

Sheridan-Smith, A.M.

Erotica

Le Diable au Corps (French Edition)

Essays & Correspondence

French & European Pubns

Le Diable au corps: Une lecture passionnante (French Edition)

Romance

Intell World Publishers

Le Diable Au Corps

Presses Pocket French

BAL DU COMTE D'ORGEL (LE)

Classics

Phidal

Le diable au corps.

Klett Ernst /Schulbuch

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