{"product_id":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Georges Bernanos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035653058772,"sku":"9781590171516","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b15cf4ef-a458-4d07-a545-2153eabfccc9.jpg?v=1780366625","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9781590171516","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}