Mouchette

"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 e [...]
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"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.