Devil in the Flesh

In the final year of the First World War, a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman married to a soldier at the front begin an illicit love affair. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields, and on river banks. Intoxicated by passion, they cannot bear to end their affair, even when it causes a scandal among their friends and neighbors. This semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of twenty.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 160 pages
\n Publication date: 07 March 2019
\n Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair begins between a sixteen-year-old boy and a young woman 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 neighbors. Instead, they hurtle towards tragedy.

Written in spare, haunting prose when Raymond Radiguet was still a teenager, this semi-autobiographical novel became an instant bestseller and its author was hailed as a genius before his tragic death at the age of twenty. Expressing all the anguish and joy of adolescence, it is a work of startling imagery and subtle beauty.

Translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Fay Weldon

\n Weight: 126g\n
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 10 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780241372616\n \n