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By Cameron Finch To many people, walking seems like such a trivial activity. It is often deemed a "slow" type of transportation, a light form of exercise, or dare I say an inconvenience? Lauren Elkin begs to differ.

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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'.

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'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?

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Nearly a century later, Lauren Elkin's Flâneuse: Women Walk the City continues that tradition by looking at place and space as configured by the female wanderer, or flâneuse.

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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. flâneuse. . . "By focusing on six writers and artists . . .

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In this enjoyable memoir-cum-cultural history, Lauren Elkin calls upon the female spirit of idle strolling Lucy Scholes Mon 25 Jul 2016 02.00 EDT he flâneur was born in 19th-century Paris, his.

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Lauren Elkin is a widely acclaimed Franco-American writer, critic, and translator. Her books include Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay.. Flaneuse is set on the streets of well-known.

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Lauren Elkin's essays have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, frieze, and The Times Literary Supplement, and she is a contributing editor at The White Review.A native New Yorker, she moved to Paris in 2004. Currently living on the Right Bank after years on the Left, she can generally be found ambling around Belleville.

Take a walk on the Parisian side with Lauren Elkin's 'Flâneuse' LA Times

Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Flâneuse: Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and.

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Lauren Elkin 3.59 3,478 ratings534 reviews '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?

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Lauren Elkin brings some of these women and their emancipatory, culture-shifting legacy to life in Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London ( public library) — a celebration of the peripatetic foot as an instrument of the mind, an insurgency, a liberation, drawing on the novels and diaries of titanic writers li.

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The Flâneuse Herself Writing in the Margins

In her new book, the author Lauren Elkin discusses the forgotten history of women artists who wandered the city and fought back against the masculine notion of the drifter. By Arnav Adhikari I.

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In Flâneuse, Elkin provides a joyful genealogy of the female urban walker, taking her own wanderings in Paris as her starting point. The flâneur is defined by the dictionary as "one who wanders.