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A review by stephaniecaye
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
2.0
I loved the premise of this book, especially based on the initial chapter, but ultimately it was not for me. As someone who also enjoys exploring and connecting with a city on foot, I found Elkin's ruminations on the flâneuse as a concept interesting. Her own story and her anecdotes about her personal explorations in cities around the world were engaging and I wanted to read more of them, versus the long stretches of biographies of other other artistic women who fit her thesis. Their long biographies as well as her scholarly, lengthy descriptions of their works (including a chapter where she recounts a two hour French movie scene-by-scene with some minimal commentary to tie it back to the rest of the book) left me cold.