Le Diable au Corps: Roman by Raymond Radiguet

"Le Diable au Corps: Roman" by Raymond Radiguet is a novel published in March 1923. It tells the story of a forbidden love affair between a fifteen-year-old schoolboy and an eighteen-year-old married woman whose husband fights at the front during World War I. The novel explores themes of adolescence, passion, betrayal, adultery, and possessive desire amid the social disruption of wartime France. Radiguet's scandalous debut caused outrage for depicting the war as "four years of vacation" and suggesting it enabled the lovers' happiness—a perspective that shocked veterans and the public alike. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Radiguet, Raymond, 1903-1923
Title Le Diable au Corps: Roman
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Diable_au_corps_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Diable_au_corps_(Radiguet)
Credits Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images
generously made available by Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale
de France.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Adultery -- Fiction
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
Subject France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 60383
Release Date
Last Update Oct 17, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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