Le diable au corps

French novelist and poet

Raymond Radiguet (French pronunciation:[ʁɛmɔ̃ʁadiɡɛ]; 18 June – 12 December ) was a French novelist and poet whose two novels were noted for their explicit themes, and unique style and tone.^[1]

Early life

Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne, close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist.

In , 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.^[2]

Career

In early , Radiguet published his first and most famous novel, Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh). The story of a young married woman who has an affair with a year-old boy while her husband is away fighting at the front provoked scandal in a country that had just been through World War I.^[3] Though Radiguet denied it, it was established later that the story was in large part autobiographical.^[3]

His second novel,