Excerpt from Modern French Literature in TranslationDuring the heyday of Dadaism and Surrealism, Of Gide and of Proust, a young man in Paris was writing a book, about an adolescent love-affair, which was to create a stir in literary circles. Le diable an corps, by Raymond Radiguet, is not a great novel but it is a very remarkable one. The story it unfolds Is told with great simplicity which links it to the line Of French classical novels. Though it deals with a Subject which could easily have been treated salaciously, there is not one sensational note in it.Radiguet has depicted here a child's vision Of the world with all the vividness and directness of a child and also With a child's ruthless disregard for other people's feelings.Although it is the personal story which holds the attention of the reader, it is none the less worthwhile to note the author's attempt to give a picture of a particular moment in the history Of France.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.