La Vie de Bohème (full title in French,
Scènes de la vie de bohème) is a work by
Henri Murger, published in 1851. Although it is commonly called a
novel, it does not follow standard novel form. Rather, it is a collection of loosely related stories, all set in the
Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s, romanticizing
bohemian life in a playful way. Most of the stories were originally published individually in a local
literary magazine,
Le Corsaire. Many of them were semi-autobiographical, featuring characters based on actual individuals who would have been familiar to some of the magazine's readers.