Bohemia
The fourth chapter explores the melancholic relationship between Bohemia and Revolution, analyzing the works of different authors and creators, from Marx to Benjamin, from the socialist painter Gustave Courbet to Léon Trotsky exiled in Vienna. Bohemia is the realm in which the attempt of “winning the energies of intoxication for revolution” (Benjamin on Surrealism) merged in a peculiar osmosis with the despair of defeat and the pariah existence of aesthetic and political outsiders.