The book was confiscated shortly after its publication, and Jæger was sentenced to prison and lost his position as stenographer at the Parliament.

[1] The book was immediately banned by the Ministry of Justice, and the police managed to confiscate most of the printed copies shortly after its publication.

Jæger was sentenced to sixty days imprisonment and a fine of 80 kr, for infringement of modesty and public morals, and for blasphemy.

[6] The confiscation of Kristiania-Bohêmen sparked a debate on freedom of press in 1886 in the literary, cultural and political magazine Nyt Tidsskrift.

[7][8][9][10][11] The novel gave its name to a literary movement in Norway in the 1880s (in Norwegian: bohembevegelsen), which included, in addition to Jæger, Christian Krohg, Gunnar Heiberg, Ludvig Meyer, Arne Garborg and others.