"EDENES ARTIFICIALES" EN LA MODERNIZACIÓN DE LA BOHEMIA LITERARIA DE JOAQUÍN DICENTA.

This study sets out to determine the extent to which socalled "artificial Edens" were present in the literary works of Joaquín Dicenta and how they manifested in the bohemian life attributed to this author. One of the key pieces when analysing this question will be El Crimen de Ayer (1908), in which the author recreates the bohemian lifestyle of French literato Henry Murger, adapting it to the modern vices of his contemporary age. A modernity in which ether was quaffed in elegant cosmopolitan cocktails, and opium was carried in little glass phials. All these scenes are portrayed in Dicenta's novel, who also refers, in other works, to the effects of consuming ether and opium in men and women. Furthermore, this paper seeks to ascertain the extent to which Joaquín Dicenta was in tune with that modernity when he talks about these drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]