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「Flaneur」在法文的原意是：生活藝術的漫不經心。它有著閒散、晃蕩、漫遊、慵懶的意涵。因此，在《巴黎晃遊者》中，作者開宗明義就表態：請將所有的旅遊指南全拋諸腦後，就跟隨“我”，愛德蒙．懷特的閒晃漫步，逛逛屬於他私藏的“巴黎後街”，他會一一告訴你巴黎的所有新鮮事和八卦背景。表面上看似漫無目的閒遊，實際上，居住巴黎長達十六年的愛德蒙．懷特，卻是以細膩的眼光踩著巴黎歷史的節拍，透視連巴黎人都不知道的面向。走過書店、商家，再到古蹟、皇宮，他的視線穿透 一棟棟高傲建築的白牆，直探人性的內在戲劇；不論是法國的猶太人歷史、美國黑人的存在、同性戀者、頹廢派藝文人士，甚至是過去與現在的保皇黨，無一不在城市閒遊者筆下被仔細檢視。在愛德蒙．懷特眼中，巴黎之所以具有都市性，也在於它對待作家的態度。 他舉了著名的惹內（Jean Genet）的審判案作為佐證。在1943年，...(展开全部)

The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.

The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.