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Manfred Jung is a French poet born in a very poor family of farmers. During the World War II was forced to serve in the German army but participated to the liberation of Paris with his wife Consuela Wittmann. After the war Manfred Jung established as a bookseller and started his literary career. Publishing short stories and poetry in French and German periodicals, Jung's opus magnum and, in fact, only achieved work remains Instructions, a self-produced book that melts poetry and philosophical or theological views.
Manfred Jung dies in 1995 after having passed his last years as a homeless living in a cabin in the woods near the city of Sarreguemines at the German border. A rumor says that a unique exemplary of a book entitled Vanité was found on his body, only consisting in blank pages.
The last 15 years have seen Jung's audience growing more and more in the world of French poetry.
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