NP Shameless Self-Promotion

[ROBERT HOLTON]

As a Pynchon scholar in days gone by and a P-list lurker for decades, I'll impose on your good will to announce the paperback publication of my translation of Henry Murger's Scenes of Bohemian Life (Anthem Press). This is the book that launched the idea of bohemia in Paris in the mid 1800s, and it spread rapidly from there. Pynchon connections? Well, his interest in opera is obvious. And Murger’s stories are the source for Puccini's La Boheme (and Leoncavallo's - and Rent, the modern Broadway version). V explores postwar American bohemia and  the Slow Learner intro makes his sympathies clear.
Anyway . . . that's enough promo and I'll retreat back into the shadows of lurkerhood.
All the best everyone!
Rob Holton

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