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Jean-Paul Clébert (born 23 February 1926 – 21 September 2011) was a French writer. Biography. Before completing his studies in a Jesuit college, Jean-Paul Clébert left to join the French Resistance in 1943 at the age of 16. After the liberation, he spent six months in Asia and then returned to France. He described his unusual life:
Jean-Paul Clébert, né le 23 février 1926 à Neuilly-sur-Seine et mort le 20 septembre 2011 [1], [2] à Oppède [3], est un écrivain français. Il a vécu à Bonnieux et à Oppède au pied du massif du Luberon, à partir de 1956.
May 6, 2016 · A connoisseur of chaos, Clébert is the poet of the lumpenproletariat and of a forgotten city: “Between the two bridges, mainly on the Left Bank, one’s sense of smell is overstimulated by a ...
Jean-Paul Clébert has 70 books on Goodreads with 1408 ratings. Jean-Paul Clébert’s most popular book is Paris Vagabond.
Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clébert 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.
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Apr 12, 2016 · Jean-Paul Clébert (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...
Mar 29, 2016 · Legend has it that Jean-Paul Clébert composed Paris Insolite (translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith as Paris Vagabond) from “a hopeless conglomeration of used envelopes, newsprint edges, unfolded Gauloises packets, and multicolored and multifarious scraps of paper” (3). He hoarded this conglomeration in a paper bag and, most impressively ...
