Bohemia: magnificent outcasts

The artists of the Parisian Montparnas, the regulars of the coffee houses in Munich Schwabin, the inhabitants of the New York Greenwich Willidge, the party members of the London Soho ... In the urban environment, a variegated community was born, at which a respectable city dweller looked with a mixture of horror, disgust, interest and envy. It was Bohemia, uniting geniuses and crooks, idle dreamers and tireless ministers of muses, radical activists and brilliant hedonists. Bohemia appeared on the world scene at the beginning of the 19th century, but society still did not determine who to classify Bohemia and how to relate to it. Preserving its semantic ambiguity, this concept is most often very polemically opposed to the values ​​of industrial capitalism and the lifestyle of the bourgeois.
The book of the famous cultural researcher Elizabeth Wilson talks about the bright representatives of bohemia, the history of the origin of this phenomenon and his fate for three centuries