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Mouchette (New York Review Books Classics)

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Mouchette (New York Review Books Classics)

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.

â€œNothing but a little savageâ€ is how the village school-teacher describes fourteen-year-old Mouchette, and that view is echoed by every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesnâ€™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, â€œalone, completely alone, against everyone.â€ Hers is a tale of â€œtragic solitudeâ€ in which despair and salvation appear to be inextricably intertwined.

Bernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to Flannery Oâ€™Connor, and Mouchette was the source of a celebrated movie by Robert Bresson.

Country	USA
Author	Georges Bernanos
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Bernanos, Georges/ Howe, Fanny (INT)/ Whitehouse, J. C. (TRN)
EAN	9781590171516
Edition	Main
ISBN	1590171519
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
MPN	9781590171516
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	156
PartNumber	9781590171516
PublicationDate	2005-11-21
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2005-11-21
Studio	NYRB Classics

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