Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were revoked last year when he failed to appear in court on a charge of passing on a curve) swerved into the left-hand lane to avoid a truck parked on the shoulder ahead of him. He saw the oncoming Matlock car too late. All of the Matlocks except Raymond were killed outright; Raymond died next morning, on his birthday...
COUNT D'ORGEL (214 pp.)-Raymond Kadiguet-Grove Press...
...Raymond Radiguet, whose masterpiece, Count d'Orgel, is published this week in the U.S., was a literary prodigy. He was born near Paris in 1903, one of a large tribe of children sired by a cartoonist for the Paris comic magazine Le Rire. Of his mother Radiguet once said: "I don't know very well what her face looked like. She was always tying shoelaces...
...Raymond spent the summer of his twelfth year in a boat on the Marne, reading his father's library of modern French authors, and decided to become a writer. At 14, he was producing lyric poetry of mature feeling and craft. At 15, he hit out on his own in the literary life of Paris. At 17, he brought out his first volume of poetry and wrote his first novel. Le Diable an Corps (recently made into a French film and shown in the U.S. as Devil in the Flesh), the story of an adolescent love affair...
...ends; and with the book, Radiguet's life ended too. He received the proofs as he lay dying of typhoid fever. "Listen," he said. Listen to something terrible. In three days I am going to be shot by the soldiers God. . . I heard the order." Three days later, Raymond Radiguet died. He was 20. Age is nothing," he had written. "All great poets have written at seventeen. The greatest are those who succeed in making one forget it." Radiguet can make a reader forget everything but the cool grace of his art, in which he is a cameoist...