The Devil in the Flesh

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 can only 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 dying tragically at the age of twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a work of startling imagery and subtle beauty.

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This young prodigy of a French writer was so shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever, so full of dawning marvel at the ways of the world, so freshly observant, that every page he wrote was a delight Fay Weldon

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Radiguet, Radiguet Raymond
• Assisted by: Robert Baldick (Translation), Baldick Robert (Translation), A M Sheridan Smith (Translation), A. M. Sheridan Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9780241372616
• ISBN: 978-0-241-37261-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Historische Liebesromane, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Fiction - Historical, Classic fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I