Lauren Elkin
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Español
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Un ensayo reivindicativo sobre la experiencia singular de pasear siendo mujer.
El flâneur nació en el París del siglo XIX. Su hábitat natural eran los bulevares y las galerías de la ciudad. "La multitud es su dominio, como el aire es el del pájaro, como el agua el del pez", escribió Charles Baudelaire. El flâneur es un hombre ocioso que pasea y observa a la vez, pero desde la distancia: no se involucra. Sin embargo, para Baudelaire la flâneuse...
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English
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The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays, Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who strides the capitals of the world with abandon. But it is the flâneuse who captures the imagination of Elkin. She takes us on a cosmopolitan jaunt that begins in New York, where Elkin grew up, and transports us to Paris via Venice, Tokyo, and London, all cities in which she's lived. Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through...
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Language
English
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The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives-the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place...