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Memoirs of the Devil

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The French writer and playwright Frederick Soulier (1800-1847) won the widest public acclaim during his lifetime. His plays were performed on celebrated stages, and his books were repeatedly published and translated into other languages, but the greatest fame fell to the share of his novel "Memoirs of the Devil". Baron François Armand de Luizzi has, like all members of his family, a special privilege - to come into direct contact with the Devil and even to order him (not for free, of course; with the unclean force otherwise does not happen). The young baron's request seems harmless: he wished to hear the stories of people from his surroundings as they are known only to the omniscient demon-temptress, to find out everything about tragic mistakes, about temptations, which did not find the strength to resist, about the all-consuming power of hatred - that usually people do not share with anyone. To the accompaniment of the "devil's revelations" develops and de Luizzi's own life, full of good intentions and heavy blunders, and the price that the Devil charges is getting higher and higher....
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