The Devil in the Flesh - Softcover

Radiguet, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714534021 ISBN 13: 9780714534022

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, 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.

The liaison soon becomes a scandal, and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening—even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Radiguet wrote The Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, about his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty. His only other novel is Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel, also available from Marion Boyars Publishers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714534021
• ISBN 13: 9780714534022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128