Scenes of Bohemian Life
Scenes of Bohemian Life Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Adapted countless times for theater and film, Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohme…
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Scenes of Bohemian Life
Scenes of Bohemian Life (1851) is a novel by Henri Murger. Adapted countless times for theater and film, Murger's novel served as inspiration for Puccini's opera La bohme (1896) and for the hit musical Rent (1996). Written at the beginning of his career as a popular French poet and novelist, Scenes of Bohemian Life is composed of vignettes inspired by the author's experience as a starving artist in Paris' Latin Quarter.
They are to be met one day leaning against the mantel-shelf in a fashionable drawing room, and the next seated in the arbor of some suburban dancing place. "The Bohemians know everything and go everywhere, according as they have patent leather pumps or burst boots. They cannot take ten steps on the Boulevard without meeting a friend, and thirty, no matter where, without encountering a creditor." Distinguished by their sense of fashion and