From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Le Diable au corps (novel)
Le Diable au corps (novel)
Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh is an early 1923
The Flesh) It has been adapted several times for television and
novel by Parisian literary prodigy Raymond Radiguet. the screen.
The story of a young married woman who has an affair
with a sixteen-year-old boy while her husband is away
fighting at the front provoked scandal in a country that
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had just been through World War I. Though Radiguet de- • Devil in the Flesh (1947 film)
nied it, it was established later that the story was in large • Devil in the Flesh (1986 film)
part autobiographical.[citation needed] Critics, who initially
despised the intense publicity campaign for the book’s
release (something not normally associated with works
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of literary merit at the time), were finally won over by • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705608/
the quality of Radiguet’s writing and his sober, objective
style.
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