Lauren Elkin is the author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Scaffolding , Art Monsters , and Flaneuse . Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books , the New York Times , Granta , Harper''s , Le Monde , Les Inrockuptibles , and Frieze , among others. An award-winning translator, she lives between Paris and London.>

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If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a flâneuse?

In this gloriously provocative and celebratory book, Lauren Elkin defines her as 'a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk'.

Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâ**neuse traces the relationship between the city and creativity through a journey that begins in New York and moves us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo and London, exploring along the way the paths taken by the flâneuses who have lived and walked in those cities.

From nineteenth-century novelist George Sand to artist Sophie Calle, from war correspondent Martha Gellhorn to film-maker Agnes Varda, Flâneuse considers what is at stake when a certain kind of light-footed woman encounters the city and changes her life, one step at a time.