Clebert Jean - Paul - Paris Vagabond - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An NYRB Classics Original Jean - Paul Cl bert 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 Cl bert 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 Cl bert's friend Patrice Molinard is a raw and celebratory evocation of the life of a city and the underside of life.
Title: Paris Vagabond
Author(s): Clebert Jean - Paul
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590179574
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 4/12/2016
Category: Adventure