| Mouchette Contributor(s): Bernanos, Georges (Author), Howe, Fanny (Introduction by), Whitehouse, J. C. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590171519 ISBN-13: 9781590171516 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2005012784 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.04" W x 8.06" (0.40 lbs) 156 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |