The Devil in the Flesh
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<strong>Raymond Radiguet wrote the highly scandalous<em> Devil in the Flesh</em> between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, following his own love affair with a married woman. At the time, in post WWI France, the book created a stir comparable to that of <em>Lady Chatterley's Lover</em> </strong>
Francois, the adolescent narrator, meets Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband is away at the Front. They fall in love with each other. Their passion leads to a tragic climax four years later when Marthe passes off their love child as her husband's legitimate child even though everyone knows the truth. The themes of freedom, family and passion against a background of war and honour in <em>The Devil in the Flesh</em> created a scandal at the time of publication, which was also the year of the author's death.
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A triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece * New Statesman * The Devil in the Flesh is so assured that one wonders how [Radiguet] would have written in maturity * The Guardian * The Devil In The Flesh, a masterpiece of promise... [Radiguet] belonged to the solemn race of men whose lives unfold too quickly to their close -- Jean Cocteau He could drag himself from pub to pub, get no sleep for whole nights, wander from one hotel room to another - his spirit worked with a constant lucidity, with a wonderful and sound logic -- Joseph KesselMore details
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