THE MOST NOTABLE FEATS OF A BOHEMIAN STUDENT ACROSS THE WORLD - Volume 2

“The work The Most Notable Feats of a Bohemian Student Around the World – Volume 2: Feats Along the Route: Paris-Constantinople-Tsaritsyn-Constantinople-Paris also aims to offer readers a glimpse into everyday life in the 19th century. Far from the usual romanticism, instead of presenting maidens parading their candid beauty through the most noble places or court balls, the characters are ordinary people on the social scale who entertain themselves in the stifling environments of cabarets, brothels, and the cheapest theaters, when not in adulterous and promiscuous alcoves. Young people and adults bewitched by sexual appeal indulge in adventures of all kinds, in epic and endless drinking binges, hypnotized by the voice of seduction, addiction, and the torment of sexual desire. Therefore, everyday life in the 19th century was just a preparation, a warm-up, for the Belle Époque that was to come.
In fact, the Belle Époque (a French expression meaning ‘beautiful era’) was a period of cosmopolitan culture in European history, which began at the end of the 19th century, with the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and lasted until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The expression also refers to the intellectual and artistic climate of the period in question. It was marked by profound cultural transformations that translated into new ways of thinking and living everyday life.
The Brazilian Belle Époque, in turn, came a little later and advanced through the 20th century until the beginning of World War II; it coincided with the changes experienced by major cities, such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in the period from 1889 to 1939.
Our male protagonist, Luís Rodrigues, is a bohemian young man who becomes an adventurer and, finally, a passionate medical student who, together with the female protagonists of the work (Jamilah Bakir, Isabele Thierry Poulin, Emma Martin Purviance), will hopefully appeal to the reading public, who we sincerely believe will enjoy moments of pure entertainment while reading the book The Most Notable Feats of a Bohemian Student Around the World – Volume 2: Feats Along the Route: Paris-Constantinople-Tsaritsyn-Constantinople-Paris.”