The quotation in lines 47-55 most probably represents the point of view of somebody. Well, the key here is in lines 47-55,"I understand ....... individuals whose existence is a problem, .......... a myth, ......... enigma, ....... located nowhere." This is a decidedly negative view. Well the gypsies, Murger, Balzac, and the Bohemians would look at the Bohemians positively. The only one who would look at them negatively would be the Bourgeois, and that would be E.