Scenes of Bohemian Life

Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger that portrays the lives of starving artists in Paris' Latin Quarter. It has been adapted numerous times for theater and film, inspiring Puccini's opera La bohème (1896) and the hit musical Rent (1996). The Bohemians are distinguished by their sense of fashion and impoverished lifestyle and are part of a historical avant-garde. The novel is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction and is reimagined for modern readers with a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript.

Format: Hardback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 15 February 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press

Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger, written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist. Composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter, the novel has been adapted countless times for theater and film. Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohème (1896) and for the hit musical Rent (1996).

Distinguished by their sense of fashion and impoverished lifestyle, Paris Bohemians are part of a historical avant-garde, a cultural phenomenon found in any artistic society. Living day to day, these artists and radicals commune with the world as it is, taking nothing and no one for granted. In Scenes of Bohemian Life, four friends—Rodolphe, Marcel, Colline, and Schaunard—avoid landlords and old lovers on the streets of the Latin Quarter, a district known for its countercultural figures. Hilarious and preeminently human, Scenes of Bohemian Life is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction from a writer whose lifestyle informed much of his work.

With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Henri Burgers Scenes of Bohemian Life is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers.

Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781513133911