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Raymond Radiguet (18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.
Apr 10, 2018 · Raymond Radiguet and Jean Cocteau on the beach. Mortal danger intruded into this calm in the unlikely form of a batch of oysters, which, as far as anyone could tell, infected Radiguet and Valentine Hugo with typhoid.
Raymond Radiguet est un écrivain et poète français né le 18 juin 1903 à Saint-Maur-des-Fossés et mort le 12 décembre 1923 à Paris. Talent très précoce, il a écrit deux romans ayant connu un grand succès critique et populaire, Le Diable au corps et Le Bal du comte d'Orgel, publiés alors qu'il abordait la vingtaine.
Jun 14, 2024 · Raymond Radiguet was a precocious French novelist and poet who wrote at 17 a masterpiece of astonishing insight and stylistic excellence, Le Diable au corps (1923; The Devil in the Flesh), which remains a unique expression of the poetry and perversity of an adolescent boy’s love.
Raymond Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917 he moved to the city. Soon he would drop out of the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied, in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature.
Nov 17, 2023 · Raymond Radiguet: the 18-year-old novelist who seduced the avant-garde and outraged 1920s France. When he wasn’t carousing with Brancusi and Modigliani, Jean Cocteau’s lover — who died before his 21st birthday — somehow found time to pen The Devil in the Flesh, one of the most sensational books written about the First World War.
Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh) is an early 1923 novel by Parisian literary prodigy Raymond Radiguet. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, 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 a scandal.
