The Devil in Love (novel)

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name = The Devil in Love
title_orig = Le Diable Amoureux
translator = anon


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author = Jacques Cazotte
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country = France
language = French
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genre = novel
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release_date = 1772
eng_release_date = 1793
media_type = Print
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isbn = NA
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"The Devil in Love" ( _fr. Le Diable Amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections.

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.

Adaptations

*1840 - Le Diable amoureux, France, a ballet by Napoléon Henri Reber and Francois Benoist, balletmaster Joseph Mazilier. It was later restaged in a revised version under the title "Satanella" by the Marius Petipa with his father Jean Petipa for the Imperial Ballet with the original music re-orchestrated by Konstantin Liadov. This revival premiered on February 10, 1848 at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
*1929 - "Le Diable amoureux", France, a comic opera by Alexis Roland-Manuel
*1975-1989 - "Devil in Love (Vlyublyonny dyavol)", Russia, an opera by in three acts by Alexander Vustin,libretto by Vladimir Khachaturov
*1999 - "The Ninth Gate", USA, a film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp
*The novel also served as inspiration for, and is referred to within, Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel "The Club Dumas" (El Club Dumas, 1993)

External links

* [http://abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/go?diableam3,1,20 Le Diable amoureux] available at [http://abu.cnam.fr/ ABU: la Bibliothèque Universelle] fr