Raymond Radiguet
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Raymond Radiguet was a French novelist and poet. His two novels are notable for their psychological complexity and classical aesthetics, as well as for their controversial subject matter. Radiguet die
Radiguet in 1922.
Raymond Radiguet (bottom right) in 1911 or 1912, at 8-9 years old.
Tomb of Raymond Radiguet, Poet and Novelist, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
Avenue Raymond Radiguet, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
Succès de scandale
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Succès de scandale is a term for any artistic work whose success is attributed, in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work. In some cases the controversy causes audiences to seek
Raymond Radiguet
…at the age of twenty after contracting typhoid fever. Radiguet completed his best-known novel, Le Diable au corps (1923), at the age of seventeen. A succès de scandale upon its publication, the novel is a semi-autobiographical account of an affair with the wife of a soldier during World War I. A second novel, Le Bal…
Luncheon on the Grass was one of the first in a series of Parisian succès de scandale.
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