Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London | 誠品線上

漫遊女子: 大城小傳, 踩踏都會空間的女性身姿

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內容簡介 An exhilarating, gender-bending walk through the lives of women who are enlivened by cities FINALIST FOR THE PEN DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 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.

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