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As a student in Paris, Lauren Elkin loved to wander aimlessly in the streets, but she needed to adapt the existing word for a person doing that, flâneur — an idle stroller, killing time — to.


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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.


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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City by Lauren Elkin is published by Chatto & Windus. To order a copy for £13.93 (RRP £16.99) go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846.


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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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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.


The Flâneuse Herself Writing in the Margins

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 . . .