
Devil in the Flesh
by Raymond Radiguet
Title:
Devil in the Flesh
Author:
Raymond Radiguet
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
160 pages
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780241372616
EAN:
9780241372616
Publication Date:
07/03/2019
Classifications:
Classic and Biographical
Weight (g):
244
Dimensions (mm):
129 x 197 x 10
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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. Translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Fay Weldon












