Elkin Lauren
Elkin Lauren - Flaneuse Women Walk The City In Paris New York Tokyo Venice And London - Paperback
Elkin Lauren - Flaneuse Women Walk The City In Paris New York Tokyo Venice And London - Paperback
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Description: Finalist FOR THE PEN/ Diamonstein - Spielvogel Award FOR THE ART OF THE Essay A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The fl neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl neuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender - bending new book the fl neuse is a determined resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk. Virginia Woolf called it street haunting ; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York. Part cultural meander part memoir Fl neuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York where Elkin grew up and transports us to Paris via Venice Tokyo and London all cities in which she's lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such fl neuses as the cross - dressing nineteenth - century novelist George Sand the Parisian artist Sophie Calle the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn and the writer Jean Rhys. 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. Called deliciously spiky and seditious by The Guardian Fl neuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.
Title: Flaneuse Women Walk The City In Paris New York Tokyo Venice And London
Author(s): Elkin Lauren
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374537432
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/6/2018
Category: Memoirs
Description: Finalist FOR THE PEN/ Diamonstein - Spielvogel Award FOR THE ART OF THE Essay A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 The fl neur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the fl neuse who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender - bending new book the fl neuse is a determined resourceful individual keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city and the liberating possibilities of a good walk. Virginia Woolf called it street haunting ; Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany s; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York. Part cultural meander part memoir Fl neuse takes us on a distinctly cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York where Elkin grew up and transports us to Paris via Venice Tokyo and London all cities in which she's lived. We are shown the paths beaten by such fl neuses as the cross - dressing nineteenth - century novelist George Sand the Parisian artist Sophie Calle the wartime correspondent Martha Gellhorn and the writer Jean Rhys. 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. Called deliciously spiky and seditious by The Guardian Fl neuse will inspire you to light out for the great cities yourself.
Title: Flaneuse Women Walk The City In Paris New York Tokyo Venice And London
Author(s): Elkin Lauren
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374537432
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/6/2018
Category: Memoirs
