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Flâneuse

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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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  Copyright © 2016 by Lauren Elkin

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  Originally published in 2016 by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, Great Britain

  Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  First American edition, 2017

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  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.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2016033253|ISBN 9780374156046 (hardcover)|ISBN 9780374715892 (e-book)

  Subjects: LCSH: Elkin, Lauren—Travel.|Women authors—Homes and haunts.|Women artists—Homes and haunts.|City and town life.|Flaneurs—History.

  Classification: LCC HQ1150 .E45 2017|DDC 305.4—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033253

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