Title: Prosaic
Product review: This very slim volume has even slimmer content that has little to do with the 'flaneur' proposition as it is commonly understood.The author writes a kind of autopilot 'prose' which dutifully recites history, names dates and places, and adds currency through incorporating dinner party gossip.For arguably the world's most aesthetic city, he has not a single poetic metaphor or observation to spare on Paris as built monument to culture or urban nexus.Not surprisingly, the truly great book on the flaneur in Paris is not even cited in his brief bibliography: Julian Green's "Paris". A random page of Green will provide the shivers of recognition and insight that this feeble effort sadly lacks.Thud. 2 stars because it can be bought for a penny used, is portable and, after a page or two of boredom, tossable.Les francais diraient que l'auteur est deja epuise.
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