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The Flaneur
A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER CHEE 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book’ - Sunday Telegraph ‘An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris’ - Guardian 'White's genius as a flâneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our...
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A unique stroll through the twists and turns of the City of Lights with a new introduction by Alexander Chee
A unique stroll through the twists and turns of the City of Lights with a new introduction by Alexander Chee
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER CHEE
'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris’ - Guardian
'White's genius as a flâneur is revealed in his affinity for unexpected pleasures, and he includes many for our delectation' - New Yorker
A unique and eclectic view of Paris through the eyes of a fierce and witty intellect.
A flâneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles without apparent purpose but is secretly attuned to the history of the streets he walks - and is in covert search of adventure, aesthetic or erotic.
Acclaimed writer Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris.
'One has the impression of having fallen into the hands of a highly distractible, somewhat eccentric poet and professor who is determined to show you a Paris you wouldn't otherwise see . . . White tells such a good story that I'm ready to listen to anything he wants to talk about' - New York Times Book Review
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ISBN: 9781037207891
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 April 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 172g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Edmund White (1940–2025) authored more than thirty works of fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, including the novels A Boy’s Own Story, Our Young Man and The Humble Lover; the memoirs City Boy, Inside a Pearl and The Unpunished Vice; The Flâneur, a tour through Paris; the literary biographies Genet and Rimbaud; and many more. His most recent work, the sexual autobiography The Loves of My Life, was a New York Times Editors' Choice. He received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.
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