Paris Vagabond (New York Review Classics)

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Paris Vagabond (New York Review Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

Jean-Paul ClÃ©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, ClÃ©bert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called â€œaleatory novelâ€ assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His â€œgallery of faces and cityscapes on the road to extinctionâ€ is an astonishing depiction of a world apartâ€”a Paris, long since vanished, of the poor, the criminal, and the outcastâ€”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 Vagabondâ€”here published with the starkly striking photographs of ClÃ©bertâ€™s friend Patrice Molinardâ€”is a raw and celebratory evocation of the life of a city and the underside of life.
Country USA
Brand New York Review Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-04-12
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781590179574

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2016-04-12
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781590179574

Paris Vagabond (New York Review Classics)

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