{"product_id":"mouchette-9781590171516","title":"Mouchette","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 \u003ci\u003eDiary of a Country Priest\u003c\/i\u003e as the perfection of his singular art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to Flannery O'Connor, and \u003ci\u003eMouchette\u003c\/i\u003e was the source of a celebrated movie by Robert Bresson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.04w x 0.39d","brand":"Georges Bernanos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43568760029365,"sku":"9781590171516","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bf8406d7-56fc-4dfb-9af1-8106ee99eb3d.jpg?v=1706630149","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mouchette-9781590171516","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}