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Flaneuse
Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London | Lauren Elkin
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2017 Random House Uk; Vintage
336 Seiten; 197 mm x 138 mm
Sprache: English
ISBN: 978-0-09-959337-9
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An uplifting, gender-bending critique of how women negotiate public space Deborah Levy Guardian, Book of the Year
Kurztext / Annotation
Part memoir, part biography, part cultural meander, an irresistibly intelligent literary walk through the lives of wandering women: about how, by putting one foot in front of the other, we can sometimes stumble upon different routes in our lives
Langtext
*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street
'Flâneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities.
That is an imaginary definition.'
If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a flâneuse?
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, Flâneuse 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 flâneuses 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, Flâneuse 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.
- the old ways
- a field guide to getting lost
- virginia woolf
- robert macfarlane
- new york
- down and out in paris and london
- rebecca solnit
- olivia laing
- the art of
- will self
- the lonely city
- agnes varda
- maggie nelson
- siri hustvedt
- biography
- feminism
- essays
- culture
- sociology
- politics
- biographies
- philosophy
- gender
- autobiography
- writing
- feminist
- anthropology
- lgbt
- pop culture
- romance
- classic
- canada
- journalism
- england
- british
- historical
- france
- society
- friendship
- true stories
- race
- short stories
- lgbtq
- education
- music
- true story
- chick lit
- beauty
- fashion
- ideas