Mouchette (Paperback, Main)

One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art.
"Nothing but a little savage" is how the village school-teacher describes fourteen-year-old Mouchette, and that view is echoed by every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesn't bother to contradict it; ragged, foulmouthed, dirt-poor, a born liar and loser, she knows herself to be, in the words of the story, "alone, completely alone, against everyone." Hers is a tale of "tragic solitude" in which despair and salvation appear to be inextricably intertwined.
Bernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to Flannery O'Connor, and Mouchette was the source of a celebrated movie by Robert Bresson.

General

Imprint:	Nyrb Classics
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Authors:	George Bernanos
Dimensions:	201 x 129 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	127
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-1-59017-151-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
LSN:	1-59017-151-9
Barcode:	9781590171516

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