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Dec 9, 2013 · 6,612 ratings592 reviews. One of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, The Devil in the Flesh 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. With an accuracy of insight that is ...
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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.
Mar 27, 2012 · “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 ...
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Jul 14, 2020 · 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 ...
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Jul 14, 2023 · "The Devil in the Flesh" delves into the depths of human passion and the destructive power of forbidden love. Set against the backdrop of war-torn France, this provocative novel by Raymond Radiguet explores the tumultuous affair between a young boy and a married woman.
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Set in Paris during the First World War, it tells the story of Francois, the 16-year-old narrator, who falls in love with Marthe, an older, married woman whose husband is off fighting at the front. What seems to begin as a charming tale of puppy love quickly darkens, and they launch into a steamy affair.
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 ...
