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This novel is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions--the pride of an adolescent on the verge of manhood and the pain of a child thrust too fast into maturity. 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.
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Le diable au corps, Raymond Radiguet
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- Released
- 2007
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Le diable au corps
- Authors
- Raymond Radiguet
- Publisher
- La Provence
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 124
- ISBN10
- 2874272868
- ISBN13
- 9782874272868
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Love, France, 20th century, French Literature, World War I (1914–1918), Puberty, Childhood Love
- Original title
- Le diable au corps
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- This novel is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions--the pride of an adolescent on the verge of manhood and the pain of a child thrust too fast into maturity. 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.