+1 862 207 3288 A Year in the Merde
What are we to make of Clarke’s characterization of Paris as a “feminine” city? Despite the fact that we know Paris to be as much a masculine as a feminine place in terms of demographics, in this novel it is emphatically feminine: focused on conventionally feminine preoccupations, operating as if organized by a conventionally feminine mind, personified in ways that suggest the city is conventionally feminine, and so on. Why does the author place this emphasis on femininity in his characterization of Paris?
