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THE DEVIL IN THE FLESH - RAYMOND RADIGUET KARTO...

The tragic and complicated French romance about a teenage boy who seduces the wife of a soldier
during World War I and one of the most startling literary debuts of all timeA Penguin ClassicAs
the First World War reaches its final year  an illicit love affair is beginning between a
sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman who is married to a soldier at the front. They meet
secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris  in cornfields and on river banks. When she
receives letters from her husband  they burn them together. Intoxicated by passion  they cannot
bear to end their affair  even when it causes a scandal among their friends and neighbours.
Instead  they can only hurtle towards tragedy.Written in spare  haunting prose when Raymond
Radiguet was still a teenager  and loosely based on his life  The Devil in the Flesh became an
instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius  before dying tragically at the age of
twenty. It is a work of startling imagery and subtle beauty about power  betrayal  and passion
that expresses all the anguish and joy of adolescence.

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