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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 scandal and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening -- even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.
Raymond Radiguet wrote The Devil in the Flesh between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, drawing on his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty.
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The Devil in the Flesh
2005, Marion Boyars Publishers
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- Marion Boyars Modern Classics
0714534021 9780714534022
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Le diable au corps
September 2, 1998, Mille et une nuits
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in French
2842053559 9782842053550
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"I am sure to incur a good deal of reproach."
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"Translation first published in 1968 in Great Britain by Calder & Boyars."
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Je vais encourir bien des reproches. Mais qu'y puis-je ? Est-ce ma faute si j'eus douze ans quelques mois avant la declaration de la guerre ? Sans doute, les troubles qui me vinrent de cette periode extraordinaire furent d'une sorte qu'on n'eprouve jamais a cet age ; mais comme il n'existe rien d'assez fort pour nous vieillir malgre les apparences, c'est en enfant que je devais me conduire dans une aventure ou deja un homme eut eprouve de l'embarras.
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