Fiction, World Literature
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Overview
"Nothing but a little savage" is how the village schoolteacher describes 14-year-old Mouchette, and her view is echoed by every right-thinking local citizen. Mouchette herself doesn't contradict it; ragged, dirt-poor, a born liar and loser, she knows herself to be "alone, completely alone, against everyone." George Bernanos characterized this surprising heroine's tale as one of "tragic solitude," but Mouchette's resistance to every kind of worldly compromise puts in her touch with truths that must remain unknown to the better sort of people who wring their hands over her character and fate.A powerful influence on Flannery O'Connor, George Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity, and Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art.
Book Details
Published
October 1, 1991
Publisher
PAJ Publications
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781555540234