Review:
Edging the City
by Peter Finch and
Walking the Valleys by Peter Finch and John Briggs From Planet 250
Sharif Gemie
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Edging the City
by Peter Finch and
Walking the Valleys by Peter Finch and John Briggs
Seren, £9.99
The original psychogeographer was the flâneur, a figure from the 1860s. The flâneur was the Man Who Knew. On his wanderings through Paris, he evaluated the new architecture of ‘Haussmannisation’ – the wide, straight boulevards, the elegant shopfronts – and saw through the process, noting the dispossession and social stratification that were its inevitable consequence. Peter Finch’s recent works are a return to this source.
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Sharif Gemie is a happily retired history lecturer living in south Wales. His first novel, The Displaced, will be published by Abergavenny Small Press in May. It concerns a middle-class British couple who volunteer to work with refugees in Germany at the end of the Second World War.
