by Lauren Elkin
41 Ibid., p. 22.
42 When, at one point in the novel, Liana runs away from Marc and is then taken back by him, he warns her that if she runs away again she can’t come back. Ibid., p. 101.
43 Ibid., p. 207.
44 Ibid., p. 238.
45 Ibid., p. 249.
46 Ibid., p. 252.
47 Ibid., p. 209.
48 Letters, p. 159.
49 Deborah Levy, Things I Don’t Want to Know, London: Notting Hill Editions, 2013, p. 108.
NEW YORK, RETURN
1 Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture, London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 7, 13.
EPILOGUE, FLNEUSERIE
1 Laura T. Coffey, The Today Show, 18 August 2011.
ALSO BY LAUREN ELKIN
The End of Oulipo?
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lauren Elkin is a writer, critic, and translator whose work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times Book Review, frieze, and The Guardian. A native New Yorker, she moved to Paris in 2004, where she can generally be found ambling around Belleville. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
FLNEUSE-ING
LONG ISLAND · NEW YORK
PARIS · CAFÉS WHERE THEY
LONDON · BLOOMSBURY
PARIS · CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
VENICE · OBEDIENCE
TOKYO · INSIDE
PARIS · PROTEST
PARIS · NEIGHBOURHOOD
EVERYWHERE · THE VIEW FROM THE GROUND
NEW YORK · RETURN
EPILOGUE · FLNEUSERIE
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Notes
Also by Lauren Elkin
About the Author
Copyright
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Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain
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First American edition, 2017
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Names: Elkin, Lauren, author.
Title: Flâneuse: women walk the city in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London / Lauren Elkin.
Description: First American edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]|“Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain.”|Includes bibliographical references.
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Subjects: LCSH: Elkin, Lauren—Travel.|Women authors—Homes and haunts.|Women artists—Homes and haunts.|City and town life.|Flaneurs—History.
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