Paris vagabond
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Author
Contributions
- Molinard, Patrice, photographer - Contributor
- Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator - Contributor
- Sante, Luc, writer of foreword - Contributor
Publication
2016 - NYRB Classics, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
78,500 words, Guess
Page Count
314 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveparisvagabond0000cleb
- ISBN-101590179579
- ISBN-139781590179574
- AmazonB0104FJABK
- Library of Congress Control Number2015038075
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2015044381
- OCLC Control Number911594131
- Better World Books9781590179574
- Open LibraryOL27206657M
Classifications
- DDC914.4/360483092
- DDCB
- LCCDC707 .C537913 2016
and 2 more
- LCCDC707
- LCCDC707.C537913 2016
Description
"Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris of the poor, the criminal, and the outcast: a society of outsiders beyond the social pale. Clebert's is a genuinely anarchist voice, a free spirit who was an intrepid explorer of a Paris that was in many places practically ruinous but where the poor were not yet completely marginalized. He was also a true writer's writer, hailed by his mentor and friend Blaise Cendrars and admired by Henry Miller, who said that reading Paris Vagabond "roiled my guts.""--
Subjects
Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
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