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The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur —which has the basic meanings of "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", "loafer"—which itself comes from the French verb flâner , w...
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Charles Baudelaire: A lyric poet in the era of high capitalism. Trans. Harry Zohn. NY: Verso, 1997. Jenks, Chris. "Watching your Step: The History and Practice of the Flaneur."; Visual Culture. Ed. Chris Jenks.
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Interestingly enough, the concept of the "flâneur" and Baudelaire's and Benjamin's inclusion of it in their work is central to several recent online creative publication projects. See the following links: The flâneur, Flaneur, ... Charles Baudelaire begins with a chapter on the flâneur. Benjamin commences his argument...
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The teenaged Baudelaire was kicked out of his prestigious Parisian lycée in 1839 for, among other offenses, having bad taste in literature: the radically anti-bourgeois poet-novelists Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, and Sainte-Beuve in particular.
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Aug 16, 2008 ... Flaneur's walk around Paris and his encounter with women.
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For people who think of city streets as nightmarish environments of noise and litter (and for whom happiness would be a cottage in the hills), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) may be the perfect guide to a particular charm of urban life.
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Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. — Cyril Connolly...
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For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and ... -Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, New York: Da Capo Press, 1964. (reprint) Note: the original essay appeared in the Parisian newspaper, Figaro, in 1863.
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see also: "The Salon of 1859" in PIP and Charles Baudelaire on the flaneur (bulletin board) ... Felix Nadar, Charles Baudelaire, 1856 (FR) ... from "Correspondences" by Charles Baudelaire, from "The Flowers of Evil":
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The second section, "Tableaux parisiens," was added to the 1861 edition and describes a 24-hour cycle in the life of the city through which the Baudelairean traveler, now metamorphosed into a flaneur (man-about-town), ... originally published in French, 1961). Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire: Lyric Poet in the Era of...
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