Jerrold Seigel is William J. Kenan Professor in the Department of History at New York University. He is also the author of The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp and Marx's Fate.
The central attraction of this study lies in its imaginative grasp
of these remarkable denizens (both declared and undeclared) of
bohemia. Mr. Seigel has written a cultural history that respects
the complex entanglements found in both life and art, and that is
no mean feat. -- Arnold Weinstein * New York Times Book Review
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The research that went into Bohemian Paris turns up some
treasures-the very stuff of history... This highly readable book
probes further than any other I know into the reciprocating
movements that connect and distinguish bohemia and bourgeois. --
Roger Shattuck * New York Review of Books *
This is an enormously useful approach to a complex phenomenon... It
also brings together a dazzling assortment of individuals, from
such well-known figures as Baudelaire, Courbet, Zola, Manet,
Verlaine, and Rimbaud to such relatively obscure figures as the
writer Henry Murger and the cabaret owner Emile Goudeau. -- Jay
Tolson * Nation *
It deserves to be read... for the skill with which it explores an
ever-interesting tract of cultural history. -- John Gross * New
York Times *
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