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The flâneur : a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The flâneur : a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris about?
Bloomsbury is proud to announce the first title in an occasional series in which some of the world's finest novelists reveal the secrets of the city they know best. These beautifully produced, pocket-sized books will provide exactly what is missing in ordinary travel guides: insights and imagination that lead the reader into those parts of a city no other guide can reach. A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through a city without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the place and in covert search of adventure, esthetic or erotic. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, taking us into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Parisians. Entering the Marais evokes the history of Jews in France, just as a visit to the Haynes Grill recalls the presence-festive, troubled-of black Americans in Paris for a century and a half. Gays, Decadents, even Royalists past and present are all subjected to the flaneur's scrutiny. Edmund White's The Flaneur is opinionated, personal, subjective. As he conducts us through the bookshops and boutiques, past the monumen
Who reads The flâneur : a stroll through the paradoxes of Paris?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edmund White
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781582342122
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (1,366 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13