Scenes of Bohemian Life, Hardcover by Murger, Henry; Holton, Robert (EDT), Li...

by Henry Murger

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Scenes of Bohemian Life, Hardcover by Murger, Henry; Holton, Robert (EDT), ISBN 1839988800, ISBN-13 9781839988806, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. Th recounts the lives of a bohemian group of creative young people as they fall in and out of love, endure cold and hunger, enjoy drunken parties, see their friends suffer and die of poverty, and finally emerge as mature artists. Th's publication soon inspired many (mostly young) people to seek out a bohemian life in Paris and other cities around the world. Not only did it inspire people at the time to change their lives, it also inspired Puccini’s beloved opera La Bohème(1896) and, a hundred years later, Jonathan Larson’s phenomenally successful Rent (1996). Few works of literature have had such a social impact. Bohemian cultures and subcultures have been with us ever since and Murger’s book remains an engaging and satisfying work of literature. First published in 1851, Henry Murger’sScènes de la vie de bohèmebrought together the stories he had written for a small arts newspaper in Paris. These semi-fictionalized tales, drawn from the daily lives of Murger and his friends, portray the struggles and celebrations, the loves and losses, of young writers and artists as they eked out an existence on the impoverished margins of society. While the nineteenth-century Parisian setting is fascinating in itself, t

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN: 9781839988806
• Condition: Fine

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