The Devil in the Flesh was written by Raymond Radiguet who died untimely of tuberculosis when he was 20. He was great friends with Cocteau who told The Paris Review that Radiguet had told him, "In three days, I am going to be shot by the soldiers of God."
This book tells of an illicit love affair between a sixteen-year-old boy and the wife of a soldier, set during the final years of the First World War.