Devil in the Flesh Publisher/ Éditions de la Martinière and animation fans alike

and animation fans alike

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Devil in the Flesh Publisher/ Éditions de la Martinière and animation fans alikeIn this novel of desire, possession and perdition, an unnamed adolescent narrator meets the slightly older Marthe in Paris at the start of the First World War when her husband to be is away at the Front. The narrator is at a loose end precocious and apathetic, he has given up school, and in the general chaos of wartime no occupation has been found for him. At first out of boredom, he sets about gaining a hold on Marthe, but finds himself falling