&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:CazotteDiableAmoureux.jpg) Title page of Jacques Cazotte's The Devil in Love, 1772 | |
| Author | Jacques Cazotte |
|---|---|
| Original title | Le Diable amoureux |
| Translator | Judith Landry |
| Language | French |
| Genre | novel |
| Published | 1772 (French) 1793 (English) |
| Publication place | France |
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The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman[1] named Don Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections.
French critic P.G. Castex has described The Devil In Love as "the very initiator of the modern fantasy story".[2]
Canadian critic Carlo Testa has described The Devil In Love (in review of Stephen Sartarelli's 1993 translation) as a "terminus a quo" in the history of the demonic subgenre".[3]
The Le Diable amoureux started a literary style known as fantastique, where surreal events intrude on reality and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely the product of the character's imagination.[4]
- ^ "Vintage Pop Fictions: The Devil in Love, by Jacques Cazotte". vintagepopfictions.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
- ^ Castex quoted in Franz Rottensteiner, The Fantasy Book:an illustrated history from Dracula to Tolkien. Collier Books, 1978, (p. 137). ISBN 0-02-053560-0
- ^ Testa, Carlo (Spring–Summer 1994). "Reviewed Work: The Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte, Stephen Sartarelli". Nineteenth-Century French Studies. JSTOR 23537155.
- ^ E. von Mücke, Dorothea (2003). The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. Stanford University Press. p. 304. ISBN 9780804738606.