He belonged to the solemn race of men whose lives unfold too
quickly to their close.?Jean Cocteau
"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 sixteen, tells of his love
affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is
away at the front. The liaison soon becomes a scadal and their
friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is
happening - even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.
In the film "Le Diable au Corps" (with Gerard Philipe and Micheline
Presle), Claude Autant-Lara recreated this story of the First World
War with nostalgic tenderness. His sensitive dramatization treats
the affair with such delicacy that many critics consider the love
scenes to be among the most beautiful ever photographed. The film
won the Grand Prix and the International Critics Prize.
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 "Comte d'Orgel," also available from Marion
Boyars Publishers.
..".a triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece..."?"New
Statesman"
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