"There is no doubt that [Radiguet has] a remarkable intuitive knowledge of human emotions and a still more remarkable style."
–The New York Times "Unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No adolescent before Radiguet has delivered to us the secret of that age: we have all falsified it."
–François Mauriac
"Passages of delirious sensuality . . . so assured that one wonders how he would have written in maturity."
–The Guardian "A masterpiece."
–Jean Cocteau
"This young prodigy of a French writer was so shrewd, so ruthless, glittering and clever, so full of dawning marvel at the ways of the world, so freshly observant, that every page he wrote was a delight."
–Fay Weldon
