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English
NYRB Classics
15 June 2004
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.
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Imprint:   NYRB Classics
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 205mm,  Width: 125mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   160g
ISBN:   9781590171516
ISBN 10:   1590171519
Pages:   156
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) was born in Paris and studied for his license in law and literature at the University of Paris. He was the author of many novels, including The Diary of a Country Priest, which, like Mouchette, was adapted for film by Robert Bresson. His Dialogues des Carmelites was used by composer Fran ois Poulenc as the libretto for the opera of the same title. Fanny Howe was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to California to attend Stanford University when she was seventeen. She has published several books of poetry and fiction and a collection of essays called The Wedding Dress. She is Professor Emerita of American Literature and Writing at the Unviersity of California, San Diego.

Reviews for Mouchette

A welcome reminder of the power and importance of an often neglected author. TLS A quirky, angry little tale about the loneliness of the artist, as much as of a disenfranchised young girl. Scottish Sunday Herald More than seven decades later it retains its brutal power and pathos. Irish Times


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