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Walking Underground: Two Francophone Flâneurs in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 56, Number 3, Fall 2016
- pp. 120-133
- 10.1353/esp.2016.0033
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This article explores ‘Tokyo underground’ as described by Régine Robin and Michaël Ferrier. In the strange spaces beneath the surface of the city, these writer-flâneurs discover forms of universality which they identify as Tokyo’s ‘syntax’; specific configurations of the common language spoken in and by metropolises all over the world.