Flaneuse av Lauren Elkin

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<p><b>FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY</b><br><b><br>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book of 2017</b><br><br>The <i>fl¿ur </i>is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the <i>fl¿use </i>who captures the imagination of the cultural critic Lauren Elkin. In her wonderfully gender-bending new book, the <i>fl¿use </i>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 <i>Breakfast at Tiffany¿s</i>; and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1970s New York.<br><br>Part cultural meander, part memoir, <i>Fl¿use </i>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