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A British professor of cultural studies weaves a heavily footnoted but clearly developed history of the idea and culture of the bohemian. Lord Byron was perhaps the first to embody the myths of art becoming life, of transgressive sexuality, and of opposition to bourgeois mentality. Wilson moves easily from London to Paris to New York's Greenwich Village and the Weimar Republic, from the nineteenth century to the 1960s, as she tells mesmerizing stories of Augustus John and Baudelaire, of Jackson Pollock and Neal Cassady, of Kiki and Caitlin Thomas. She illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the bohemian ideal, such as the view of drink as both enhancing the creative process and dulling the oversharp senses. She traces with particular skill the place of women, who almost universally end up in the role of support and mop-up. She even traces the "been there, done that" phrase to the early nineteenth-century Parisians, whose habitual response was a blase "Seen it!" Bohemian themes of dress, eroticism, and excess are thoroughly explored. Fascinating. GraceAnne DeCandido
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Hardcover: 286 pages
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (November 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813528941
ISBN-13: 978-0813528946
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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bohemian role, bohemian myth, bohemian women, bohemian identity, bohemian men, bohemian love, bohemian dress, many bohemians, orig publ, bohemian way, real bohemians, salon hostess, fatal man, caf� life

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New York, Greenwich Village, First World War, Augustus John, Nina Hamnett, George Sand, United States, Alma Mahler, Charles Baudelaire, Th�ophile Gautier, Caf� des Westens, Nancy Cunard, Otto Gross, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Second World War, Walter Benjamin, Dylan Thomas, Erich M�hsam, Latin Quarter, The Guardian, William Burroughs, East End, Floyd Dell, Joyce Johnson

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2.0 out of 5 stars Rehash of familiar facts and anecdotes., March 25, 2007

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Another unnecessary tome of the "publish or perish" variety. It merely documents that the author has identified and consulted written accounts of the phenomenon from the last 150 years and patched together a narrative that is very much of the cut-and-paste variety. No original research is evidenced; and where the author had the opportunity to correct gross errors of fact in sources quoted, it's just too much bother. To wit: on p. 237, "La Goulue...still there in the 1930s... In the background..stands an old man...Valentin-le-D�soss�, her old dancing partner." Well, La Goulue was dead by early 1929 (30 Jan. to be exact), and her partner Valentin had slipped back into the perfectly bourgeois existence that he emerged from - to die in 1907.
On p. 246, Mrs. Wilson gives us two paragraphs on a "certain" Dr. Walter Serner (1889-1942). She appears to know nothing about him as a writer (of brilliantly unique short stories), but insists that he eventually disappears in the Soviet Union, "perhaps in search of the bohemian's always elusive utopia".
This romanticizing nonsense is especially galling, considering that Serner suffered the usual fate the Nazis had in store for Jews: he and his wife were arrested in Prague in 1942 and murdered a few months later, probably in Auschwitz.
The author's website tells us that she has written an autobiography at age 45, and is a feminist, lesbian and social activist. I'd say stick to it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars not such a bad book., May 17, 2009

By	edi "the last slum goddess" (Second Floor, Elswise Abandoned Industrial Wasteland, LA, CA USofA) - See all my reviews

i actually really like this book & i am not an intellectual featherweight. i agree to an extent w/ the above- or belownoted comments; there are probably wavery facts herein. i wish there werent. unfortunately, that is something i see continually in non-fiction books, particularly bothersome when the reader [such as the other reviewer or myself] actually knows the obscure facts. i would say this problem is an artefact of the postpostmodern age, but i am certain it predates it. having seen so many supposed historical accounts resplendent w/ the same issues, i can only wonder how much we really know about anything that predates or is distant from our own situational awareness.

this book is, however, an excellent overview of a subject which should have but strangely has not been accorded too much book length scrutiny. since the bohemian contingent of postpostmodern life has been co-opted into the macrocosm &, in commitment, reduced to the nanocosm, perhaps people who pick this up will be more inspired & enlightened. @this point, there is not that much better in this realm for which one can hope.

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