Flaneuse:Women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokkyo,Venice and London / Flaneuse:Women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokkyo,Venice and London
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Autor:
Lauren Elkin
Country:
Italy (IT)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
Einaudi
Publishing Year:
2022
Lauren Elkin is a French-American writer and translator born in 1978 in New York. She lived in Paris for twenty years and now resides in London. In addition to Flâneuse, she has written No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus (2021), Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (2023), and the novel Scaffolding (2024). She collaborates with The New York Times, Granta, and Frieze.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
In Flâneuse, Lauren Elkin explores the figure of the flâneuse, a woman who walks through cities with curiosity and awareness. Through personal experiences and stories of women like George Sand, Virginia Woolf, and Sophie Calle, Elkin examines how urban space has traditionally been dominated by men and how women have claimed the right to “flâner” the cities. The book blends memoir, cultural criticism, and urban history, offering a reflection on freedom, solitude, and female creativity in public space
