_ '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.

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. 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. Edmund White, in full Edmund Valentine White III, (born January 13, 1940, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

The most important things in our intimate. The Flneur CHAPTER ONE The Flneur A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris By EDMUND WHITE Bloomsbury Read the Review PARIS IS A BIG CITY, in the sense that London and New York are big cities.

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