Paris vagabond
By: Jean-Paul Clebert ; photographs by Patrice Molinard ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; foreword by Luc Sante
Contributors: Molinard, Patrice, photographer; Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator; Sante, Luc, writer of foreword
Edition: First illustrated edition.
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: NYRB Classics; New York Review of Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781590179574
Subjects: Biography; Description and travel; Pictorial works; Authors
Work titles: Paris insolite
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.""--
Notes: Translation from French of: Paris insolite.

Translation of Paris insolite, co-authored with Patrice Molinard (photographs), published by Denoël, 1952, and reissued by Attila in 2009.