Le Diable au Corps: Roman

A novel published in March 1923. It tells the story of a forbidden love affair between a fifteen-year-old schoolboy and an eighteen-year-old married woman whose husband fights at the front during World War I. The novel explores themes of adolescence, passion, betrayal, adultery, and possessive desire amid the social disruption of wartime France. Radiguet's scandalous debut caused outrage for depicting the war as