Count d'Orgel's Ball
Contributors: Jean Cocteau (Introduction); Annapaola Cancogni (Translator)
Edition: Tra edition
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: March 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781590171387
Subjects: Historical fiction; French Novel And Short Story; Fiction - General; Fiction; Literary; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary
First sentence: Are feelings such as stirred the heart of Countess d'Orgel obsolete?
Description: 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 François de Séryeuse 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.