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FlaneuseWomen Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
Format: Hardback
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street
* As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week *
'Fl�neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of fl�neur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities.
That is an imaginary definition.'
If the word fl�neur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a fl�neuse?
In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as 'a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk'. Part cultural meander, part memoir, Fl�neuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the fl�neuses who have lived and walked in those cities.
From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Fl�neuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.
Format: Hardback
Published: 2016
Pages: 336
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN: 9780701189020
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Our conditions mean the following:
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