Henry Murger – författare

This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. The book 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. The book''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.

This bookis a new translation of Henry Murger’s influential Scènes de la vie de bohème, first published in French in 1851. The book 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. The book''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.

L''auteur est connu pour les «Scenes de la vie de boheme», roman qui inspira a Puccini son opéra «la Boheme». C''est le meme theme qui est traité dans les «Scenes de la vie de jeunesse». Beaucoup de talent et d''esprit, mais un livre tres curieux ou chacune des nouvelles décrit avec un humour noir, féroce et particulier, la vie de boheme des jeunes artistes des années 1850. «Le bonhomme Jadis» et «Le manchon de Francine» sont a cet égard remarquables. Miné par ses années de boheme, de meme que les héros de ses nouvelles, Henry Murger est mort en 1861 a l''âge de 39 ans.

Scenes de la vie de boheme est une ouvre littéraire de Henry Murger publiée en 1851 qui a donné lieu a de nombreuses adaptations au théâtre, a l''opéra et au cinéma et constitue un document majeur concernant la vie de boheme a Paris au XIXe siecle.