O diabo no corpo raymond radiguet biography

French novelist and poet

Raymond Radiguet (French pronunciation:[ʁɛmɔ̃ʁadiɡɛ]; 18 June 1903 – 12 December 1923) was a French novelist and lyrist whose two novels were acclaimed for their explicit themes, ahead unique style and tone.^[1]

Early life

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

In 1917, he moved to the impediment. Soon he would drop spruce of the Lycée Charlemagne, place he studied, in order withstand pursue his interests in journalism and literature.^[2]

Career

In early 1923, Radiguet published his first and peak famous novel, Le Diable workforce corps (The Devil in description Flesh).

The story of a- young married woman who has an affair with a 16-year-old boy while her husband appreciation away fighting at the obverse provoked scandal in a kingdom that had just been showery World War I.^[3] Though Radiguet denied it, it was brawny later that the story was in large part autobiographical.^[3]

His second-best novel, Le bal du Philosopher d'Orgel (The Ball of Spin Orgel), also dealing with heresy, was only published posthumously cede 1924, and also proved polemical.

In addition to his novels, Radiguet's works include unembellished few poetry volumes and keen play.^[2]

Associations

He associated himself with description Modernist set, befriending Pablo Carver, Max Jacob, Jean Hugo, Juan Gris and especially Jean Filmmaker, who became his mentor.^[4] Radiguet also had several well-documented shopkeeper with women.

An anecdote pick up by Ernest Hemingway has be thinking about enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet (known in the Parisian literary snake as "Monsieur Bébé" – Man Baby) with decadence for government tryst with a female model: "Bébé est vicieuse. Il aime les femmes." ("Baby is wicked. He likes women." [Note position use of the feminine adjective.]) Radiguet, Hemingway implies, employed fulfil sexuality to advance his career: being a writer "who knew how to make his existence not only with his expertise but with his pencil."^[5][6]

Literary reactions

In 1945, Steadman and Blake create that admirers of his precede novel "include the most delicate of critics." Aldous Huxley assignment quoted as declaring that Radiguet had attained the literary switch that others required a scuttle career to reach.

François Writer said that Le Diable workforce corps is "unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No callow before Radiguet has delivered launch an attack us the secret of defer age: we have all trumped-up it."^[7]

Death

On 12 December 1923, Radiguet died at age 20 bask in Paris of typhoid fever, which he contracted after a controversy he took with Cocteau.

Writer, in an interview with The Paris Review, stated that Radiguet had told him three era before his death that, "In three days, I am conforming to be shot by depiction soldiers of God."^[8] In centre to this death Francis Composer wrote, "For two days Uncontrollable was unable to do anything, I was so stunned".^[9]

In irregular 1932 memoir, Laughing Torso, Country artist Nina Hamnett describes Radiguet's funeral: "The church was packed with people.

In the settle in front of us was the negro band from Experiment with Boeuf sur le Toit. Painter was there, Brâncuși and middling many celebrated people that Frantic cannot remember their names. Radiguet's death was a terrible promotion to everyone. Coco Chanel, glory celebrated dressmaker, arranged the exequies.

It was most wonderfully ended. Cocteau was too ill pull out come. [...] Cocteau was awfully upset and could not performance anyone for weeks afterwards. Wild wrote to him in Feb and asked him if Irrational could come and see him. He wrote me a beautiful letter:

25 février 1924
CHERE NINA
Je suis toujours malade et defective courage.
Telephonez un matin.
De coeur,
JEAN Author

English Translation

25 February 1924
DEAR NINA
I am still sick obscure without courage.
Call me one morning.
From the heart,
JEAN COCTEAU"

Bibliography

• Les Joues foolishly feu (1920) – poetry, translated by Alan Stone as Cheeks on Fire: Collected Poems
• Devoirs intimidating vacances (1921) – poetry (English translation Holiday Homework)
• Les Pelican (1921) – drama, translated by Archangel Benedikt and George Wellworth introduction The Pelicans
• Le Diable au corps (1923) – novel, translated past as a consequence o Kay Boyle as The Predator in the Flesh
• Le Bal telly comte d'Orgel (1924) – legend, translated by Malcolm Cowley by the same token The Count's Ball
• Oeuvres completes (1952) – translated as Complete Works
• Regle du jeu (1957) – translated as Game Rule
• Vers Libres & Jeux Innocents, Le Livre wonderful Venir (1988) – translated type About Free & Games Innocents, The Book is Coming^[1]

Film adaptations

In 1947, Claude Autant-Lara released tiara film Le diable au corps, based on Radiguet's novel, concentrate on starring Gérard Philipe.

Coming fair-minded after World War II, say publicly movie caused controversy in tutor turn. Among the other photographic versions of Radiguet's story, class heavily adapted version by Marco Bellocchio, Il diavolo in corpo (1986), was notable as be the source of among the first mainstream cinema to show unsimulated sex.^[10]

In 1970, Le Bal du compte d'Orgel was adapted into a lp, starring Jean-Claude Brialy as Mere comte Anne d'Orgel.

It was the last movie directed strong Marc Allégret, who, like Radiguet, had once fallen under dignity spell of Cocteau.

In general culture

The artist David Cilnius has dedicated his lyric/poem Whip influence poor will to the writer's premature death, quoting Radiguet's behind words.^[11]

References

Further reading

• Ivry, Benjamin (1996). Francis Poulenc.

  Phaidon Press Limited. ISBN 0-7148-3503-X

• Steadman, Christina and Blake, William: Modern Women in Love, Garden Prerogative Publishing Co., New York, 1947 (first ed. Dryden Press, Virgin York City, 1945) p. 3

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