Monday, July 23, 2018

Count d'Orgel's Ball



Raymond Radiguet wrote two books this, and Devil in the Flesh.  I remember liking the later more.  I need to reread it.  Count d’Orgel’s Ball is about Francois, a twenty-year-old who comes from a well to do bourgeois family. He meets the d’Orgels, a distinguished upper-class couple.  Francois finds him attracted to the wife Mahaut.  She likes him as well.  The wife, Francois, and the husband Anne are drawn into a triangle that has devastating effects on the wife.  The author died at 20.  This is pretty distinguished for someone of that age.  Jean Cocteau, a great writer in himself revised this book which says a lot.  

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