{"product_id":"9781590171516","title":"Mouchette (New York Review Books Classics Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035331805424,"sku":"9781590171516","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590171516_p0.jpg?v=1763806584","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590171516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}