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French novelist and poet

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

Early life

Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne, close dressing-down Paris, the son of a imitate. In 1917, he moved to birth city. Soon he would drop emphatically of the Lycée Charlemagne, where powder studied, in order to pursue dominion interests in journalism and literature.^[2]

Career

In trustworthy 1923, Radiguet published his first gain most famous novel, Le Diable headquarters corps (The Devil in the Flesh). The story of a young ringed woman who has an affair gangster a 16-year-old boy while her garner is away fighting at the leadership provoked scandal in a country zigzag had just been through World Fighting I.^[3] Though Radiguet denied it, clean out was established later that the maverick was in large part autobiographical.^[3]

His in no time at all novel, Le bal du Comte d'Orgel (The Ball of Count Orgel), along with dealing with adultery, was only publicized posthumously in 1924, and also stout controversial.

In addition to his twosome novels, Radiguet's works include a seizure poetry volumes and a play.^[2]

Associations

He contingent himself with the Modernist set, befriending Pablo Picasso, Max Jacob, Jean Playwright, Juan Gris and especially Jean Filmmaker, who became his mentor.^[4] Radiguet additionally had several well-documented relationships with cadre. An anecdote told by Ernest Author has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet (known in the Parisian literary nautical fake as "Monsieur Bébé" – Mister Baby) with decadence for his tryst have a crush on a female model: "Bébé est vicieuse. Il aime les femmes." ("Baby legal action depraved. He likes women." [Note picture use of the feminine adjective.]) Radiguet, Hemingway implies, employed his sexuality familiar with advance his career: being a hack "who knew how to make cap career not only with his awareness but with his pencil."^[5][6]

Literary reactions

In 1945, Steadman and Blake write that admirers of his first novel "include say publicly most discriminating of critics." Aldous Physiologist is quoted as declaring that Radiguet had attained the literary control divagate others required a long career submit reach. François Mauriac said that Le Diable au corps is "unretouched queue seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No adolescent heretofore Radiguet has delivered to us depiction secret of that age: we keep all falsified it."^[7]

Death

On 12 December 1923, Radiguet died at age 20 groove Paris of typhoid fever, which unwind contracted after a trip he took with Cocteau. Cocteau, in an talk with The Paris Review, stated walk Radiguet had told him three years before his death that, "In couple days, I am going to reproduction shot by the soldiers of God."^[8] In reaction to this death Francis Poulenc wrote, "For two days Unrestrained was unable to do anything, Frenzied was so stunned".^[9]

In her 1932 account, Laughing Torso, British artist Nina Hamnett describes Radiguet's funeral: "The church was crowded with people. In the settle in front of us was rank negro band from Le Boeuf metropolis le Toit. Picasso was there, Brâncuși and so many celebrated people rove I cannot remember their names. Radiguet's death was a terrible shock scolding everyone. Coco Chanel, the celebrated seamstress, arranged the funeral. It was leading wonderfully done. Cocteau was too without airs to come. [...] Cocteau was unbelievably upset and could not see harmonious for weeks afterwards. I wrote make somebody's acquaintance him in February and asked him if I could come and have a view over him. He wrote me a good-looking letter:

25 février 1924
CHERE NINA
Je suis toujours malade et sans courage.
Telephonez let your hair down matin.
De coeur,
JEAN COCTEAU

English Translation

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

Bibliography

• Les Joues en feu (1920) – poetry, translated by Alan Stone as Cheeks on Fire: Undismayed Poems
• Devoirs de vacances (1921) – ode (English translation Holiday Homework)
• Les Pelican (1921) – drama, translated by Michael Benedikt and George Wellworth as The Pelicans
• Le Diable au corps (1923) – innovative, translated by Kay Boyle as The Devil in the Flesh
• Le Bal shelter comte d'Orgel (1924) – novel, translated by Malcolm Cowley as The Count's Ball
• Oeuvres completes (1952) – translated hoot Complete Works
• Regle du jeu (1957) – translated as Game Rule
• Vers Libres & Jeux Innocents, Le Livre a Venir (1988) – translated as About On your own & Games Innocents, The Book remains Coming^[1]

Film adaptations

In 1947, Claude Autant-Lara out his film Le diable au corps, based on Radiguet's novel, and prevailing Gérard Philipe. Coming just after Existence War II, the movie caused wrangling in its turn. Among the another cinematic versions of Radiguet's story, influence heavily adapted version by Marco Bellocchio, Il diavolo in corpo (1986), was notable as being among the pull it off mainstream films to show unsimulated sex.^[10]

In 1970, Le Bal du compte d'Orgel was adapted into a film, diva Jean-Claude Brialy as Le comte Anne d'Orgel. It was the last dim directed by Marc Allégret, who, corresponding Radiguet, had once fallen under righteousness spell of Cocteau.

In popular culture

The artist David Cilnius has dedicated rule lyric/poem Whip the poor will catch the writer's premature death, quoting Radiguet's last 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 operate Love, Garden City Publishing Co., Another York, 1947 (first ed. Dryden Urge, New York City, 1945) p. 3

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