Count d'Orgel's ball / Raymond Radiguet ; translated by Annapaola Cancogni ; foreword by Jean Cocteau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radiguet, Raymond, 1903-1923.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Cancogni, Annapaola, 1944-

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Bal du comte d'Orgel. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 160 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2005]

Summary:

Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young Francois de Seryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart. Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of twenty, "Count d'Orgel's Ball" is a love story that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

Notes:

This translation originally published: Hygiene, Colorado : Eridanos Press, c1989.

ISBN:

1590171381

OCLC:

56982555