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Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."
Bohemianism is a life self-consciously positioned on the margins in order to express ambivalence about the mainstream.
Last week the official organ of American cultural bohemianism, the Village Voice , was sold to speculators without a complaint from its once fiercely anti-capitalist readers and staff.
Also last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education proclaimed the death of American intellectual bohemianism: A junior professor of English at Princeton bemoaned the fact that his most brilliant students are being lured into high-paid consulting jobs (higher-paid than his!)
But apart from Sheedy's melancholic portrayal of the doped-up photographer, the film is said to be "full of itself and its artistic pretension" (Jack Mathews, the Los Angeles Times ) and saddled with clichéd depictions of bohemianism.