Devil in the Flesh (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Radiguet, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140027823 ISBN 13: 9780140027822

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1971

Synopsis

penguin pbk,1972

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Review

"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 clairvoyance. No adolescent be- fore Radiguet has delivered to us the secret of that age: we have all falsified it." --Francois Mauriac"Although Radiguet was so young, he had managed to zone in on the perversity of human love with an accuracy which anticipates, or is in parallel development with, Freud. . . . His insights compel us to keep reading, in the unpleasant knowledge that we may learn something, possibly even about ourselves. . . . One of the measures of the book's brilliance is that its morality, or its amorality, is not clear-cut." "--The Guardian""A masterpiece of promise." --Jean Cocteau

About the Author

Raymond Radiguet died a few months after Le Diable au Corps appeared, at the age of twenty. He published one other novel Comte D'Orgel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140027823
• ISBN 13: 9780140027822
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160