Scenes From the Life of Bohemia: Scènes De La Vie De Bohême (Classic Reprint): Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

Murger, Henri

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1330561996 ISBN 13: 9781330561997

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2016

Riassunto

Excerpt from Scenes From the Life of Bohemia: Scènes De La Vie De Bohême

Henri Murger was born in 1822 and was the son of a man who exercised the joint calling of tailor and doorkeeper in the Rue Saint Georges, Paris. After receiving a scanty and fragmentary education he entered a lawyer's office, but like many another "youthfore-doomed his father's soul to cross," thought more of scribbling stanzas than of engrossing deeds. His verses, however, gained him the patronage of M. de Jouy, the Academician. Thanks to this gentleman, he obtained the position of secretary to Count Tolstoi, a Russian nobleman, who paid him infinitely less than his coachman or cook, but who, on the other hand, does not seem to have exacted much in return for the fifty francs a month disbursed. Murger's literary career began about 1841. His first essays were mainly poetical, but under the pressure of stern necessity he wrote whatever he could find a market for, turning out prose, to use his own expression, at the rate of eighty francs an acre, and scattering his talent in the columns of petty literary journals so shaky that they never dared announce anything as "to be continued in our next," and even in trade periodicals. Like his own Rodolphe, he edited a fashion paper, the Moniteur de la Mode, and the Castor, an organ of the hat trade. His struggles and privations had been terrible, but his position gradually improved, especially under the influence of Charapfleury, with whom he resided for some time and who urged him to devote himself to prose fiction.

About the year 1844 Murger joined the staff of the Corsaire in which, in 1848, he published The Bohemians. The work caused a sensation in literary circles, but the limited circulation of the periodical prevented this from extending to the general public.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1330561996
• ISBN 13: 9781330561997
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 404
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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