"Le diable au corps" (English spelling)

Japanese: 《Le diable au corps》(英語表記)Lediableaucorps
"Le diable au corps" (English spelling)

…Cocteau's influence was particularly great. His literary fame skyrocketed with the publication of his novel Le diable au corps (1923), which depicts an adulterous affair between a married woman and a young boy on the home front during World War I, but he died suddenly, like a comet, from typhoid fever a few months later. However, his posthumous novel Le bal du comte d'Orgel (1924) was highly praised as a miraculous modern rendition of Madame de Lafayette's The Lady of Cleves. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Le diable au corps" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…とくに,コクトーの影響は大きい。第1次大戦下の銃後の人妻と少年との不倫の恋を描いた小説《肉体の悪魔Le diable au corps》(1923)の発表によってにわかに文名は高まるのであるが,その数ヵ月後に腸チフスのために,彗星のように忽然と他界してしまった。しかし,遺稿として出版された小説《ドルジェル伯の舞踏会Le bal du comte d’Orgel》(1924)は,ラ・ファイエット夫人の《クレーブの奥方》の奇跡のような現代的再現として絶賛された。…

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