Count D'Orgel's Ball
By Raymond Radiguet
Foreword by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Annapaola Cancogni
By Raymond Radiguet
Foreword by Jean Cocteau
Translated by Annapaola Cancogni
Category: Fiction
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$12.95
Mar 31, 2005 | ISBN 9781590171387
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Praise
“Lovelier than Proust and truer than Balzac….”
— Jean Cocteau
“Raymond Radiguet’s Count d’Orgel’s Ball is a prototypically French novella: irreducibly classical, ruthlessly analytical, and so thoroughly disabused that it is hard to believe anyone so young could have written it. Never has grace been so curt, or tact so indecent, or psychology so diabolical. And yet, the tragedy of this young author’s death shadows us on each and every page of this unforgivably short novel and reminds us that the word ‘genius’ is not inappropriate.”
— André Aciman
“Extraordinary assurance of this book…It partakes of the nature of a wager or an acrobatic feat. The achivement is almost perfect.”
— André Gide
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