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ISBN
1590171519
EAN
9781590171516
Publication Name
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Type
Paperback
Release Title
Mouchette (New York Review Books Classics)
Artist
Bernanos, George
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590171519
ISBN-13
9781590171516
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46593845

Product Key Features

Book Title
Mouchette
Number of Pages
156 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Small Town & Rural, General, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Author
Georges Bernanos
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-012784
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
A quirky, angry little tale about the loneliness of the artist, as much as of a disenfranchised young girl., "Nabokov complained that Turgenev essentially moved characters around in order for them to have conversations; and Bernanos moves them around in order for them to confess to each other. These confessions, which involve long speeches, sometimes of many pages, are extraordinarily affecting and frequently beautiful. Bernanos is, like Dostoevsky, something of a sensationalist of the soul. While Dostoevsky's characters speak to each other in the same kind of mashed and ripely careless prose in which Dostoevsky writes, Bernanos's priests and parishioners speak a formal and poetic discourse, full of metaphor and figure."-James Woods, The New Republic "It possesses the linear perfection of the French classic novel and a concentrated power out of all proportion in its length." -Martin Turnell, The New York Times "A tragedy in the great tradition, piteous, harrowing-and ennobling." -Walker Percy "Simply and directly told, this novel relates the story of the young outcast peasant girl, Mouchette . . . and her search for the compassion and strength to combat her loneliness. A beautiful and moving short novel-compassionate, perceptive, lyrical." - Publisher's Weekly
Dewey Decimal
843/.912
Synopsis
Mouchette is a tale of "tragic solitude" in which despair and salvation appear to be inextricably intertwined., 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.
LC Classification Number
PQ2603.E5875N713

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