Description
| Product ID: | 9781590171516 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Mouchette |
| Authors: | Author: George Bernanos |
| Page Count: | 156 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | NYRB Classics |
| Publisher Name: | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2005-11-21 |