Raymond Radiguet Libri

Scritto da Radiguet a soli diciotto anni, Il diavolo in corpo ebbe subito un clamoroso successo: da allora è diventato un romanzo di culto per più di una generazione di lettori, un culto rafforzato dalle versioni cinematografiche di Claude Autant-Lara (1974) e di Marco Bellocchio (1986). Ispirandosi in parte a vicende autobiografiche, Radiguet racconta la "scandalosa" storia d'amore di un sedicenne e di una giovane signora, Marthe Grangier, sposata a un soldato partito per la Grande Guerra. Più che la scabrosità della "relazione pericolosa", a fare del libro un mito letterario sono la febbrile tensione - tipicamente adolescenziale - del protagonista e la sua smania, frenetica e contraddittoria, di vivere fino in fondo i propri impulsi e di affermare una propria adulta identità agli occhi della donna e del mondo.

Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure, and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young François de Séryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart.Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of twenty, Count d'Orgel's Ball is a love story that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

Shortly before his death at the age of twenty, the young literary sensation Raymond Radiguet compiled a volume of his poetry, composed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Presented here, this prodigious oeuvre is notable as much for its homage to classical style as it is for its risqu� and even licentious undertones: it is, by Radiguet's own admission, an interpretation of ""the birth of Venus,"" a depiction of the awakening of the senses. Based on the authoritative 1925 text, this dual-language edition also contains Radiguet's foreword to the collection, providing an invaluable insight into the history and interpretation of the works.

Radiguet, das Wunderkind der französischen Prosa, schrieb Der Teufel im Leib mit neunzehn Jahren und Der Ball des Comte d'Orgel mit zwanzig Jahren. Mit einundzwanzig Jahren lebte er bereits nicht mehr. Der Teufel im Leib erregte großes Aufsehen in Frankreich, obwohl die Novelle den bereits gut bekannten Traditionen des französischen psychologischen Romans folgt und das Thema – die ehebrecherische Liebe – in der französischen Literaturszene, die an Aufregungen und Skandalen gewöhnt ist, nichts Neues darstellt. Wahrscheinlich ist es die erstaunlich scharfe und frische, literarische Konventionen nicht kennende, nicht beschönigende und dennoch bemerkenswert geübte und präzise Ausdrucksweise des genialen Teenagers, die für die Aufmerksamkeit und die ungewöhnlich schnelle Anerkennung verantwortlich ist. Der Ball des Comte d'Orgel ist eine würdige Fortsetzung des großartigen Debüts.