{"product_id":"mouchette","title":"Mouchette","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\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 \u003cem\u003eDiary of a Country Priest\u003c\/em\u003e as the perfection of his singular art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBernanos uncompromising genius was a powerful inspiration to Flannery O’Connor, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMouchette\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was the source of a celebrated movie by Robert Bresson.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53561268568378,"sku":"9781590171516","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9781590171516.jpg?v=1780464134","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/mouchette","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}