{"product_id":"paris-vagabond-paperback","title":"Paris Vagabond - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Clebert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003ePatrice Molinard\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn NYRB Classics Original \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJean-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 \u003ci\u003eParis Vagabond\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eParis Vagabond\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Clébert\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-2011) ran away from his Jesuit boarding school at the age of seventeen to join the French Re­sistance, serving undercover in a Montmartre brothel to gather intelligence on the patrons who were German soldiers. After the liberation of Paris he wandered through a catalog of odd jobs including boat painter, cook, newspaper seller, funeral director's mute, and café proprietor. For many months he lived with the city's down-and-outs, though without losing touch with some of Paris's literary figures, notably Blaise Cendrars, and gathered the raw material for this book, first published in 1952 as \u003ci\u003eParis insolite\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1956 he moved to Provence, where he remained for the rest of his life, writing many books, including a classic firsthand study of Gypsy life, originally published in 1961 and translated by Charles Duff as \u003ci\u003eThe Gypsies\u003c\/i\u003e; and the encyclopedic \u003ci\u003eDictionnaire du Surréalisme\u003c\/i\u003e (1996). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatrice Molinard\u003c\/b\u003e (1922-2002) began his career taking stills for Georges Franju's legendary documentary on the Paris slaughterhouse at La Villette, \u003ci\u003eLe sang des bêtes\u003c\/i\u003e (1949). As a film director, he is best known for \u003ci\u003eFantasmagorie\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), \u003ci\u003eOrphée 70\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), and \u003ci\u003eBistrots de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1977). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Manchester, England and is a longtime resident of New York City. He came across Clébert's \u003ci\u003eParis insolite\u003c\/i\u003e as a teenager and has long wished to bring it to an Anglophone audience. Among his many translations are works by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Henri Lefebvre, Raoul Vaneigem, Antonin Artaud, Jean Laplanche, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guy Debord, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Thierry Jonquet, and (with Alyson Waters) Yasmina Khadra. For NYRB Classics he has translated Manchette's \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 28th Annual Translation Prize of the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation for fiction. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLucy Sante \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLow Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Factory of Facts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKill All Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFolk Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. She translated Félix Fénéon's \u003ci\u003eNovels in Three Lines\u003c\/i\u003e and has written introductions to several other NYRB Classics, including \u003ci\u003eClassic Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e by William Roug­head and \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e by Georges Simenon. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, she teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247126790393,"sku":"9781590179574","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cG91eDc4UjBwQTdweVNuanVSdEJsdz09.webp?v=1768620980","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/paris-vagabond-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}