Flneuse Women Walk The City In Paris New York Tokyo Venice And London Lauren Elkin by Lauren Elkin 9780374715892, 0374715890, B01J1EGZ18 instant download after payment.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017

The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege & 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 & the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “street haunting”; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s; & 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, & 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, & the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity & insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, & film the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fraught relationship that women have with the metropolis.

Called “deliciously spiky & seditious” by The Guardian, Flâneuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.

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Lauren Elkin's essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Frieze, & The Times Literary Supplement. Her book Flâneuse was named a notable book of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review & was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables.