The Bohemians by Marquis de Pelleport; Vivian Folkenflik (Translator); Robert Darnton (Introduction by)- This link opens in a new window
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Publication Date: 2009-11-13
While the marquis de Sade was draftingThe 120 Days of Sodomin the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel-one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's neighbor, the marquis de Pelleport, is almost completely unknown today, and his novel,Les Bohémiens, has nearly vanished. Only a half dozen copies are available in libraries throughout the world. This edition, the first in English, opens a window into the world of garret poets, literary adventurers, down-and-out philosophers, and Grub Street hacks writing in the waning days of the Ancien Régime.