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FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a “determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.†Virginia Woolf called it “street hauntingâ€; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.
Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she’s lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis.
Called “deliciously spiky and seditious†by The Guardian, Flâneuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.
Lauren Elkin,Flâneuse Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374537437,Essays Travelogues,010102 FSG Paper,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,Biography Autobiography/Personal Memoirs,DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL,GENERAL,Gender Studies,General Adult,History/Women,Non-Fiction,Personal Memoirs,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies,Social Science/Gender Studies,TRAVEL / Essays Travelogues,Travel,URBAN ECOLOGY,United States,Women,Women's Studies,cultural history; flaneur; travel writing; literary nonfiction; a memoir; autobiographical writing; women writers; feminism; literary essays; personal narratives; sexism; social history; sociology; new york city book; tokyo; venice; urban studies; best nonfiction books 2017; new york times notable books of the year; la flaneuse
Flâneuse Women Walk the City in Paris New York Tokyo Venice and London Lauren Elkin Books Reviews :
FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the flâneuse is a “determined, resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.†Virginia Woolf called it “street hauntingâ€; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.
Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she’s lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis.
Called “deliciously spiky and seditious†by The Guardian, Flâneuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.
Lauren Elkin,Flâneuse Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374537437,Essays Travelogues,010102 FSG Paper,BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,Biography Autobiography/Personal Memoirs,DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL,GENERAL,Gender Studies,General Adult,History/Women,Non-Fiction,Personal Memoirs,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies,Social Science/Gender Studies,TRAVEL / Essays Travelogues,Travel,URBAN ECOLOGY,United States,Women,Women's Studies,cultural history; flaneur; travel writing; literary nonfiction; a memoir; autobiographical writing; women writers; feminism; literary essays; personal narratives; sexism; social history; sociology; new york city book; tokyo; venice; urban studies; best nonfiction books 2017; new york times notable books of the year; la flaneuse
Flâneuse Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London (9780374537432) Lauren Elkin Books
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