LoginMouchette (New York Review Books Classics)
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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
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 21 November 2005
ISBN-10 : 1590171519 | ISBN-13: 9781590171516
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Release date: 21 November 2005
ISBN-10 : 1590171519 | ISBN-13: 9781590171516
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