- 2005 reprint edition. 127 pages.
- Published by Marion Boyars Publishers, London.
- Paperback. Format B.
- Very good condition.
Translated by A.M. Sheridan Smith. Book first published in French 1923.
One of the finest, most delicate love stories every 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 almost ruthless he describes his conflicting emotions - the pride of an adolescent on the verge of manhood and the pain of a child thrust too fast into maturity.
When the liaison becomes a scandal, their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening - even when the affair reaches its tragic climax...
Raymond Radiguet, protege of Jean Cocteau, wrote this book about his own adolescent love affair with an older woman when he was still a teenager. He died of typhoid at the age of twenty having written one other novel, Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel.
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