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Paris Vagabond

Paris Vagabond

Clebert, Jean-Paul
Nicholson-Smith, Donald
Molinard, Patrice

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1590179579
ISBN13: 9781590179574
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Apr 12 2016
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
An NYRB Classics Original

Jean-Paul Clébert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clébert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called aleatory novel assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His gallery of faces and cityscapes on the road to extinction is an astonishing depiction of a world apart--a Paris, long since vanished, of the poor, the criminal, and the outcast--and a no less astonishing feat of literary improvisation: Its long looping breathless sentences, streetwise, profane, lyrical, incantatory, are an adventure in their own right. Praised on publication by the great novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars and embraced by the young Situationists as a kind of manual for living off the grid, Paris Vagabond--here published with the starkly striking photographs of Clébert's friend Patrice Molinard--is a raw and celebratory evocation of the life of a city and the underside of life.

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