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Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.
Apr 10, 2018 · Raymond Radiguet was a French novelist who published his scandalous debut, Le Diable au corps, at the age of seventeen in 1923. He died of tuberculosis at twenty-one, after a brief and turbulent affair with Jean Cocteau.
Jun 14, 2024 · Raymond Radiguet was a precocious French novelist and poet who wrote at 17 a masterpiece of astonishing insight and stylistic excellence, Le Diable au corps (1923; The Devil in the Flesh), which remains a unique expression of the poetry and perversity of an adolescent boy’s love.
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Raymond Radiguet est un écrivain et poète français né le 18 juin 1903 à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés et mort le 12 décembre 1923 à Paris. Talent très précoce, il a écrit deux romans ayant connu un grand succès critique et populaire, Le Diable au corps et Le Bal du comte d'Orgel, publiés alors qu'il abordait la vingtaine.
Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh) is an early 1923 novel by Parisian literary prodigy Raymond Radiguet. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, 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 a scandal.
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel ("Count d'Orgel's Ball") is a French novel by Raymond Radiguet (1903–1923). The second and last novel by the Parisian author, it was published posthumously in 1924.
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Nov 17, 2023 · Learn about the life and work of Raymond Radiguet, the precocious author of The Devil in the Flesh, a controversial bestseller about a teenage love affair during the First World War. Discover his manuscript, inscribed by Jean Cocteau, offered at Christie's in Paris.
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