The Devil in the Flesh - Radiguet, Raymond
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In this novel of desire, possession and perdition, an unnamed adolescent narrator meets the slightly older Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband-to-be is away at the Front. The narrator is at a loose end - precocious and apathetic, he has given up school, and in the general chaos of wartime no occupation has been found for him. At first out of boredom, he sets about gaining a hold on Marthe, but finds himself falling deeper in love. They plunge into an affair, full of sensual pleasure and cruel power games. But as their ill-kept secret becomes widely known - and…mehr

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In this novel of desire, possession and perdition, an unnamed adolescent narrator meets the slightly older Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband-to-be is away at the Front. The narrator is at a loose end - precocious and apathetic, he has given up school, and in the general chaos of wartime no occupation has been found for him. At first out of boredom, he sets about gaining a hold on Marthe, but finds himself falling deeper in love. They plunge into an affair, full of sensual pleasure and cruel power games. But as their ill-kept secret becomes widely known - and when Marthe falls pregnant - the consequences of their heedlessness begin to unfold. Freedom and passion are confronted by convention and martial honour, with tragic repercussions. This scandalous, sexy novel rocketed its teenage author into overnight fame when it was published in the 1920s - and was all the more shocking because it was based on his own experiences during the war. Its incredible success and the flamboyant antics of its author foretold a brilliant career, but Radiguet died a few months after publication, aged only twenty.
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RAYMOND RADIGUET was born in 1903 in Saint-Maur, a small town outside Paris. He was the son of a cartoonist, but little else is known about his childhood until, at age 16, he dropped out of school after an affair with the wife of a soldier off fighting in the first World War, to go to Paris. Once there he quickly began writing for the magazine Sic, alongside writers such as Louis Aragon and Andre Breton, and he befriended many notable Modernists, including Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. Despite his age, he also quickly developed a reputation for fast living; Ernest Hemingway would later accuse him of sleeping with Cocteau, among others, to advance his career. At the age of 18, after writing a collection of poems that would only be published posthumously, Les joues en feu, Radiguet moved to a fishing village near Toulon to work on the novel that would become his masterpiece, The Devil in the Flesh, which was based on his high school affair. Cocteau would later claim that he'd had to lock Radiguet in his hotel room to keep him from drinking binges rather than writing. The author's youth and the scandalous story made the book a sensation, but Radiguet did not have long to enjoy his fame. Less than a year later, shortly after taking a trip with Cocteau to the country to finish a second novel, Le Bal du comte d'Orgel, Radiguet died of typhoid fever at age 20. Composer Francis Poulenc said of his death, "For two days I was unable to do anything, I was so stunned." CHRISTOPHER MONCRIEFF is one of the world's premier French translators. He has translated the work of Gustave Flau- bert, Victor Hugo, and numerous other French masters.