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"Count d'Orgel" is a study of a three-sided relationship set in
Parisian society after World War I. Count Anne d'Orgel and his wife
Maliant befriend the young Francois de Seryeuse, and find that
their marriage is alternately qualified and confirmed by the
feelings released.
Set in Paris during the last years of World War One, this is one of
the finest, most delicate love stories ever written. The narrator,
a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with a young woman whose
husband is away at the Front.
Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool
aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure
and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the
moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young Francois de
Seryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely
civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate
and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count
d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the
human heart.
Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of
twenty, "Count d'Orgel's Ball" is a love story that is as
disturbing as it is delicious.
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 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 his tragic death at the age of
twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a
work of startling imagery and subtle beauty. Translated by Robert
Baldick with an introduction by Fay Weldon
Je vais encourir bien des reproches. Mais qu'y puis-je ? Est-ce ma
faute si j'eus douze ans quelques mois avant la dclaration de la
guerre ? Sans doute, les troubles qui me vinrent de cette priode
extraordinaire furent d'une sorte qu'on n'prouve jamais cet ge;
mais comme il n'existe rien d'assez fort pour nous vieillir malgr
les apparences, c'est en enfant que je devais me conduire dans une
aventure o dj un homme et prouv de l'embarras.
A romantic novel set in Paris during the final years of the First
World War in which the narrator, a sixteen-year-old boy, recounts
his love affair with a woman whose husband is fighting at the
Front. From the author of COMTE D'ORGEL. In French.
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Cheeks on Fire (Paperback)
Raymond Radiguet; Translated by Alan Stone
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R304
R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Shortly before his death at the age of twenty, the young literary
sensation Raymond Radiguet compiled a volume of his poetry,
composed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Presented here,
this prodigious oeuvre is notable as much for its homage to
classical style as it is for its risque and even licentious
undertones: it is, by Radiguet's own admission, an interpretation
of ""the birth of Venus"", a depiction of the awakening of the
senses. Based on the authoritative 1925 text, this dual-language
edition also contains Radiguet's foreword to the collection,
providing an invaluable insight into the history and interpretation
of the works.
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