The Devil in Love (novel)
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"Le Diable Amoureux was the first modern French horror novel and was widely read and Gotz von Berlichingen was one of the major early works of the Sturm und Drang movement." (The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, 2005). |
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Le Diable Amoureux (The Devil in Love, 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 beautiful woman, to win his affections.
The novel was sub-titled un roman fantastique, the first time in literary history that a work was so labeled, and thus started a literary style known as fantastic fiction, 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. Le Diable Amoureux can also be considered the first modern French horror novel. The supernatural was not treated as a fantamasgory, or for satirical or philosophical purposes. It was intended to be real and to induce fear in the reader.
Adaptations
- 1840: Le Diable amoureux, France, a ballet by Napoléon Henri Reber, François Benoist and 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.
- 1858: "Satanella, or The Power of Love", Romantic Opera in Four Acts by Michael William Balfe.
- 1929: Le Diable amoureux, France, a comic opera by Alexis Roland-Manuel
- 1975–1989: Devil in Love (Vlyublyonny dyavol), Russia, an opera in two acts by Alexander Vustin, libretto by Vladimir Khachaturov
- 1993: The Club Dumas (El Club Dumas), Spain, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte inspired by and that refers to the novel.
- 1999: The Ninth Gate, United States, a film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Johnny Depp, is a partial adaptation of The Club Dumas.
- 2010: "The Devil in Love - A Soundtrack to the 1772 Occult Novel", a double-CD compilation with contributions from The Tiger Lillies, Jarboe, John Zorn, Art Zoyd and other artists; issued with a Swedish translation of the novel published by Malört Förlag.
