Flaneuse: Women Walk the City - Lauren Elkin and Brian Dillon
Thursday 28 July 2016, 6 p.m. · 52 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/1/0/1/531014-10-eng-GB/576bd3f2e26fb.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/1/0/1/531014-10-eng-GB/576bd3f2e26fb.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/1/0/1/531014-10-eng-GB/576bd3f2e26fb.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/1/0/1/531014-10-eng-GB/576bd3f2e26fb.jpg 1200w)
The flâneur – an almost invariably male idler dawdling through city streets with no apparent purpose in mind – is familiar to us from the works of Baudelaire, Benjamin and Edmund White. In a glorious blend of memoir, cultural history and psychogeography, Lauren Elkin investigates the little-considered female equivalent, from George Sand to Agnes Varda and Sophie Calle, leading us through the streets of London, Tokyo, Venice, New York and, of course, Paris. Lauren Elkin, a contributing editor at the White Review, was at the shop to discuss the phenomenon of the flâneuse, and her own walking life with Brian Dillon.
Subscribe: