Street Haunting: A London Adventure
Uses the excuse of buying a pencil to wander London; argues walking through a city creates a stream of identities; the self dissolves into observation
Uses the excuse of buying a pencil to wander London; argues walking through a city creates a stream of identities; the self dissolves into observation
Published 1927 (public domain). Woolf's version of Thoreau's 'Walking,' but urban. The city walk as philosophical method.
Key themes: Walking, observation, city life, dissolving self, the flaneur, London