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Jean-Paul Clébert
Jean-Paul Clébert (born 23 February 192621 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 as follows:
On returning he lived for 3 or 4 years as a "clochard" amongst the many homeless people in the underground
, Vista Books translated by Charles Duff
- 1997 : "Der Untergang der Welt", Pub. Lübbe
- 2016 : "Paris Vagabond" "(Paris insolite)" Donald Nicholson-Smith (translator), with photography by Patrice Molinard, New York Review Books. .
External links.
- "La mort de Jean-Paul Clébert", By Gregory Leménager, BibliObs http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/actualites/20110921.OBS0833/la-mort-de-jean-paul-clebert.html
- Interview with Jean-Paul Clébert by Olivier Bailly, BibliObs «Les clochards n'étaient pas des exclus comme aujourd'hui»