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Joseph Rouletabille #7
Le crime de Rouletabille
Alors que Rouletabille et son épouse, la ravissante Ivana, se trouvent en villégiature à Deauville, la jeune femme est assassinée en même temps que son patron, le célèbre professeur Boulenger. L'attitude ambiguë des deux victimes, qui flirtaient ouvertement, amène rapidement la police à considérer Rouletabille comme le suspect numéro 1. Comment ce dernier parviendra-t-il à prouver son innocence ? Et surtout, en trouvera-t-il la force, alors qu'il souffre terriblement? Sa femme a été tuée et l'avait peut-être trahi... C'est à travers le regard de son ami Gaston Sainclair, qui a accepté d'être son avocat, que nous suivons les péripéties de cette enquête intense et atypique. Le Crime de Rouletabille est la huitième et avant-dernière aventure du célèbre reporter auquel Gaston Leroux consacra une série culte. Elle fait l'objet d'adaptations cinématographiques régulières.
278 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1921
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Gaston Leroux
1,058 books1,080 followersGaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. The basement consisted of a cell that held prisoners in the Paris Commune, which were the rulers of Paris through much of the Franco-Prussian war.
He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel entitled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.
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July 12, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen as I wrote in my previous critique yesterday spent an unforgettable literary evening. He said the great G.K. Chesterton "that never it is closer to paradise than when fighting a battle that was lost and manages to win". I guess the same goes for a book. I am a great admirer of the French writer Gaston Lerroux that surely most know for his wonderful gothic novel turned musical by Andrew Lloyda Webber "the Phantom of the Opera", https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... & from_search = true that has made him the same favour to the Opera Garnier, Victor Hugo to Notredame de Paris did in his novel "our Lady of Paris"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... & from_search = true . It is unfair, my view, that the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical it has eaten the great novel of the great French writer. Taken several times to the big screen starring Asia Argento (now of fashion by the me too), Julian Sands, but to me the version that I like most is the Joel Schumacher with the exceptional Gerard Butler (if although linchen me one of my favorite actors.) Although lately for ideological reasons no longer almost any actor I like), Patrick Wilson, and the lovely Emmy Rossum doing Christine DAE. However Gastón Lerroux, which for me is one of the best writers in France, definitely one of my favorites was one of the pioneers of the mystery in a closed room, which is where it appears for the first time the hero of this story Rouletabille, or Joseph Josephin. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true novel commended by all lovers of the whodunit among them my Chesty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... came to call Gaston Lerroux, to differentiate it from his colleague Maurice Leblanchttps://www.goodreads.com/series/4131... (we must remember, that it is the creator of Arsène Lupin gentleman thief who became a very good Anime series) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . One called the White Knight, and Red Knight Lerroux. However if these were not enough merits Gastón Lerroux also was a genius of horror novel I still remember the anguish and fear that reading "the spouse of the Sun" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... where as in the old version of The Wicker Man in this novel is resurrected the ancient Inca pagan sacrifices. Also rewrote the myths of Dracula, and Frankenstein's https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... & from_search = true (have not read "murder machine"), but of course "bloody Doll" me I liked more than the novel by Bram Stoker (pointed out quite more)https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Their villains are terrifying without having superpowers. I certainly prefer to Erik, or Benoit Casson to the Transylvanian Count. I believe that the "bloody Doll" still gives me nightmares. As indicated on the first page of my critical one of the iconic characters of Gastón Lerroux the Rouletabille, the other is Cheri Bibi. Of which even I could not read anything. This novel "The crime of Rouletabille" or "The mystery of Paris" is the seventh in the series, so I missed many of the vital vicissitudes of Rouletabille. I don't know, how he met his spouse Ivana, known as the Cub in the Balkans, which was decisive, to save the life of the protagonist in "The black Castle", I know thanks to the wonderful prologue of book d' època https://www.depoca.es/ that in the second part of his Adventures had, to come back to confront Ballmeyer, that in another of his novels marries the beautiful Ivana, and that in another, he wrote a novel of espionage in which Rouletabille should spy on the Germans, and did not like to g. k. Chesterton. This novel might be inspired by "Los five hundred millions de la Begum" of Julio Verne (which was the last suspense, I put) and it is possible that "The black Castle" has to do with "The castle of the Carpathians" also of Julio Verne https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . I must admit, that one of the great attractions of the "crime of Rouletabille" is precisely the excellent introduction to the books D'epoca editorial, which has helped me to learn a little more to the author, and familiarize myself more with Rouletabille. It is a work of excellent editing, and is likely to be the last book of books D'´Epoca you buy. Yet I must admit one thing, and it is that at a time while Lerroux rescues the first Narrator of the series Rouletabille Gatón Sainclair not completed this novel engage me for 2/3. In fact, the first one hundred pages found me unpleasant. By far, someone asks you does not seem right, that you let your spouse to save a scientist to be the object of his attentions. The couple called Boulenger, and I while so he wouldn't think of general Boulanger, who was a general, who attempted a coup against the third Republic, which failed, and committed suicide. . But returning to the starting point this novel feels that it is French, since a such liberal plot could only come from the neighboring country. The softer thought of Ivana is that it was a spirited, Rouletabille as smooth is that it was an authentic henpecked and hardest is believed it a libertine. The book is also had some not very flattering comments towards the fair sex. In fact women can be terrible (it will not appeal to feminists, recalled the campaign that was mounted against 'Lost' Gillian Flynn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ) We must prevent excesses or the woman is immune to the original sin, but neither is the Archangel of shamelessness or evil with which it want us to present. With all this novel had not been the same without a constant of French film noir which is the femme fatal. In this case embodied by Teodora Luigi a dominatrix is supposed to, you need to get away from Dr. Boulanger. Despite the narrative, I think, should make it clear what they think of the Doctor Boulanger is a very selfish, mean-spirited, and hedonistic, man who thinks only with his virile member. It is very difficult to empathize with such specimen. In true turned, albeit cruel one feels that Rouletabille seek its own destiny allowing that his wife was the object of desire of Roland Boulanger. We must recognize its Gastón Lerroux which is capable of making us doubt if Ivana has been unfaithful to Rouletabille, and they are also very well described the damage that can cause jealousy , and mistrust. Had not seen anything like this since the valiant "Othello" moorish https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... novel has many twists, and I am going to give a clue without telling them nothing, and is that element that uses Gastón Lerroux will use it also S.S. Van Dine in some of his novels of Philo Vance https://www.goodreads.com/series/6593... we have said, that one of the achievements of this novel is to choose a man who reveres Rouletabille, but as the Oscar of Lupin Sainclaire as Narrator has lost his faith in women. The author very well force the psychology of Rouletabille, which is not very different from the killer that will face. Yet despite the giro, ramming, that to me reminds me of "Psychosis" Bloch/Hictchcock https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... because that's the only error that blamed him to books D'epoca reveal too much in the argument from the back I would have produced a greater effect if it had focused on counting only the flirtation between Ivana and Boulenger (very ambiguous), but I think that I know the truth from the novel. The beauty of the subject is precisely what Rouletabille won't save Similarly, but protect the honor of his wife. There is a very large criticism against society, being able to praise the husband, who kills by jealousy. It is good that criticism that skillfully glide Sainclair and Lerroux. Anyway, for 2/3 of the novel began to have doubts of Lerroux did not seem to the writer, who amazed me with the books mentioned at the beginning. Dialogue with Hébert, and research found me borest not only did not feel any emotion, but it gave bridles of boredom. I must say, it only remained, because I wanted to read another book, to overcome the challenge of Goodreads. Not even a scene on a train, or the pursuit of an essential witness were able to rescue me from my stupor, but then Gastón Lerroux showed me (as a good Frenchman) could be big as Napoleon, as you would say Chesty. A Sir Walter Scott had certainly made me https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... is to say, for 2/3 had not spent anything, but in the last third Gasdtón Lerroux and Rouletabille give us a lesson on how write a masterpiece. Turning, ramming the novel in his latest novel is masterly, even if I found out who was the murderer, but I didn't, because I liked this turn. As says my capable Don Juan Manuel de Prada https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... appeared evil disguised as well. The character reminded me of the of the Farisea of Francois Mauriac https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.... Although one knows it can not feel a thrill when Rouletabille points to the culprit, and unmasks him during the trial. It's funny, because it uses a trick to as employment one of my favorite characters Henri Lagarderé in one of my favorite novels (and my grandfather) "Le Bossu" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... I loved this Gastón Lerroux tribute to Paul Féval, and his fictional character. I don't know if the people you will know, but Feval was one of the pioneers of the detective novel, and was Secretary to Emile Gaboriou https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... Lecoq and Tabaret creator. This novel is very French, because there is a pique with the school of English detection. Let us remember that Maurice Leblanc had to bite the dust to Sherlock Holmes (although had to change the name, because Conan Doyle did not give him rights that appear in the saga of the Knight Ladrón de Lupin). Lerroux gets with Sherlock Holmes, and they say that the followers of his school are likely to fail by not follow reason. It should be remembered that Sherlock Holmes in "Study in scarlet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... is got with Agust Dupin and Tabaret, saying that he would have resolved the Lerouge case in seconds. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... when Rouletabille used that trick with the judge saying Lagardere is not dead, I only could think the same as the Plimpson nurse in "Test charge" also with the same voice of Elsa Lanchester "Rouletabille Fox", perhaps was not very Orthodox trick of catching the murderer, but living God, who had no other remedy. Other mini-fallo that I see is that I doubt, that being the defendant the judge let you to do the stunt that makes Rouletabille, but anyway in the name of the good show everything is lawful. Only by the final third reading it. They will thank you. My next criticism before I go on vacation will be "about the conquest of Mexico" Iván Vélez.
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Damas y caballeros como escribí en mi crítica anterior ayer pasé una velada literaria inolvidable. Decía el gran G.K. Chesterton “Que nunca se está más cerca del Paraíso que cuando se lucha una batalla que estaba perdida y se consigue ganar”. Supongo, que lo mismo pasa con un libro. Yo soy un gran admirador del escritor francés Gaston Lerroux al que seguramente la mayoría conoceréis por su maravillosa novela gótica convertida en musical por Andrew Lloyda Webber “El fantasma de la Opera”, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... que le ha hecho el mismo favor a la Opera de Garnier, que le hizo Víctor Hugo a Notredame de París en su novela “Nuestra Señora de París” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... . Es injusto, a mí modo de ver, que el musical de Andrew Lloyd Webber se haya comido a la maravillosa novela del genial escritor francés. Llevada varias veces a la gran pantalla interpretada por Asia Argento (ahora de moda por el me too), Julian Sands, pero a mí la versión que más me gusta es la de Joel Schumacher con los excepcionales Gerard Butler (si aunque me linchen uno de mis actores favoritos. Aunque últimamente por cuestiones ideológicos ya no me gusta casi ningún actor), Patrick Wilson, y la adorable Emmy Rossum haciendo de Christine Dae. Sin embargo, Gastón Lerroux, que para mí es uno de los mejores escritores de Francia, sin duda uno de mis favoritos fue uno de los pioneros del misterio en una habitación cerrada, que es dónde aparece por primera vez el héroe de esta historia Rouletabille, o Joseph Josephin. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... novela elogiada por todos los amantes de la novela policíaca entre ellos mi Chesty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... que llego a llamar a Gastón Lerroux, para diferenciarlo de su colega Maurice Leblanc https://www.goodreads.com/series/4131... (debemos recordar, que es el creador de Arsené Lupin el Caballero Ladrón del que se hizo una serie de Anime muy buena) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . A uno le llamaba el Caballero Blanco, y a Lerroux el caballero rojo. Sin embargo si estos no fueran suficientes méritos Gastón Lerroux también era un genio de la novela de terror todavía recuerdo la angustia, y el miedo que pase leyendo “La esposa del sol” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... dónde al igual que en la versión antigua de The Wicker Man en esta novela se resucitaban los antiguos sacrificios paganos incas. Además reescribió los mitos de Drácula, y de Frankenstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (aún no he leído “La máquina de asesinar”), pero desde luego “La muñeca sangrienta” a mí me gusto más que la novela de Bram Stoker (matizó bastante más) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Sus villanos son terroríficos sin necesidad de tener superpoderes. Yo desde luego prefiero a Erik, o a Benoit Casson que al Conde Transilvano. Creo, que la “muñeca sangrienta” aún me produce pesadillas.
Como se ha dicho en la primera página de mi crítica uno de los personajes icónicos de Gastón Lerroux el Rouletabille el otro es Cheri Bibi. Del que aún no he podido leer nada. Esta novela “El crimen de Rouletabille” o “El misterio de París” es la séptima de la saga, así que me he perdido muchos de los avatares vitales de Rouletabille. No sé, como conoció a su esposa Ivana, conocida como la lobezna de los Balcanes, que fue decisiva, para salvarle la vida al protagonista en “El castillo negro”, sé gracias al maravilloso prólogo de Libros d`Época https://www.depoca.es/ que en la segunda parte de sus aventuras tuvo, que volver a enfrentarse a Ballmeyer, que en otra de sus novelas se casa con la bella Ivana, y que en otra escribe una novela de espionaje en la que Rouletabille debe espiar a los alemanes, y que a G.K. Chesterton no le gusto. Esta novela pudo estar inspirada en “Los quinientos millones de la Begum” de Julio Verne (que fue el último suspenso, que he puesto) y es posible, que “El Castillo Negro” tenga que ver con “El castillo de los Carpatos” también de Julio Verne https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . Debo reconocer, que uno de los grandes atractivos del “Crimen de Rouletabille” es precisamente el excelente prólogo de la editorial Libros D`Época, que me ha ayudado a conocer un poco más al autor, y familiarizarme más con Rouletabille. Es un trabajo de edición excelente, y lo más probable es que no sea el último libro de Libros D`´Epoca que compre.
Con todo debo reconocer una cosa, y es que en un momento a pesar de que Lerroux rescata al primer narrador de la saga de Rouletabille Gatón Sainclair no terminó esta novela de engancharme durante 2/3. De hecho, las primeras cien páginas me parecieron muy desagradables. Por mucho, que te lo pida una persona no me parece bien, que tú permitas que tu esposa para salvar a un científico sea el objeto de sus atenciones. La pareja se llamaba Boulenger, y yo mientras tanto no dejaba de pensar en el general Boulanger, que fue un general, que intentó dar un golpe de Estado contra la Tercera República, que fracasó, y se suicidó. Pero volviendo al punto inicial esta novela se nota que es francesa, ya que una trama tan liberal sólo podría proceder del país vecino. Lo más suave que pensaba de Ivana es que era una casquivana, y de Rouletabille lo más suave es que era un auténtico calzonazos y lo más duro es que lo consideraba un libertino. El libro está teñido también de algunos comentarios no halagadores hacia el bello sexo. De hecho la mujer puede ser terrible (lo que no agradará a las feministas, cabe recordar la campaña que se montó contra “Perdida” de Gillian Flynn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ) hay que evitar los excesos ni la mujer es inmune al pecado original, pero tampoco es el Arcángel de impudor ni de maldad con que nos la quieren presentar. Con todo esta novela no hubiera sido lo mismo sin una constante del cine negro francés que es la femme fatal. En este caso encarnada por Teodora Luigi una dominatriz a la que se supone, que hay que alejar del Doctor Boulanger. A pesar de la narración, creo, que conviene dejar claro lo que pienso del Doctor Boulanger que es un hombre muy egoísta, mezquino, y hedonista, que sólo piensa con su miembro viril. Es muy difícil empatizar con semejante espécimen. En cierto sentido, aunque sea cruel uno tiene la sensación de que Rouletabille se buscó su propio destino permitiendo que su mujer fuera el objeto de deseo de Roland Boulanger. Hay que reconocer la maestría de Gastón Lerroux que es capaz de hacernos dudar de si Ivana le ha sido infiel a Rouletabille, y también están muy bien descritos el daño que pueden hacer los celos, y la desconfianza. No había visto algo similar desde el valiente moro “Otelo” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... La novela tiene muchos giros, y les voy a dar una pista sin decirles nada, y es que el elemento que usa Gastón Lerroux lo usará también S.S. Van Dine en algunas de sus novelas de Philo Vance https://www.goodreads.com/series/6593... Ya hemos dicho, que uno de los aciertos de esta novela es escoger a Sainclaire como narrador un hombre que venera a Rouletabille (sigue en los comentarios)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... & from_search = true . It is unfair, my view, that the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical it has eaten the great novel of the great French writer. Taken several times to the big screen starring Asia Argento (now of fashion by the me too), Julian Sands, but to me the version that I like most is the Joel Schumacher with the exceptional Gerard Butler (if although linchen me one of my favorite actors.) Although lately for ideological reasons no longer almost any actor I like), Patrick Wilson, and the lovely Emmy Rossum doing Christine DAE. However Gastón Lerroux, which for me is one of the best writers in France, definitely one of my favorites was one of the pioneers of the mystery in a closed room, which is where it appears for the first time the hero of this story Rouletabille, or Joseph Josephin. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true novel commended by all lovers of the whodunit among them my Chesty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... came to call Gaston Lerroux, to differentiate it from his colleague Maurice Leblanchttps://www.goodreads.com/series/4131... (we must remember, that it is the creator of Arsène Lupin gentleman thief who became a very good Anime series) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . One called the White Knight, and Red Knight Lerroux. However if these were not enough merits Gastón Lerroux also was a genius of horror novel I still remember the anguish and fear that reading "the spouse of the Sun" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... where as in the old version of The Wicker Man in this novel is resurrected the ancient Inca pagan sacrifices. Also rewrote the myths of Dracula, and Frankenstein's https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... & from_search = true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... & from_search = true (have not read "murder machine"), but of course "bloody Doll" me I liked more than the novel by Bram Stoker (pointed out quite more)https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Their villains are terrifying without having superpowers. I certainly prefer to Erik, or Benoit Casson to the Transylvanian Count. I believe that the "bloody Doll" still gives me nightmares. As indicated on the first page of my critical one of the iconic characters of Gastón Lerroux the Rouletabille, the other is Cheri Bibi. Of which even I could not read anything. This novel "The crime of Rouletabille" or "The mystery of Paris" is the seventh in the series, so I missed many of the vital vicissitudes of Rouletabille. I don't know, how he met his spouse Ivana, known as the Cub in the Balkans, which was decisive, to save the life of the protagonist in "The black Castle", I know thanks to the wonderful prologue of book d' època https://www.depoca.es/ that in the second part of his Adventures had, to come back to confront Ballmeyer, that in another of his novels marries the beautiful Ivana, and that in another, he wrote a novel of espionage in which Rouletabille should spy on the Germans, and did not like to g. k. Chesterton. This novel might be inspired by "Los five hundred millions de la Begum" of Julio Verne (which was the last suspense, I put) and it is possible that "The black Castle" has to do with "The castle of the Carpathians" also of Julio Verne https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . I must admit, that one of the great attractions of the "crime of Rouletabille" is precisely the excellent introduction to the books D'epoca editorial, which has helped me to learn a little more to the author, and familiarize myself more with Rouletabille. It is a work of excellent editing, and is likely to be the last book of books D'´Epoca you buy. Yet I must admit one thing, and it is that at a time while Lerroux rescues the first Narrator of the series Rouletabille Gatón Sainclair not completed this novel engage me for 2/3. In fact, the first one hundred pages found me unpleasant. By far, someone asks you does not seem right, that you let your spouse to save a scientist to be the object of his attentions. The couple called Boulenger, and I while so he wouldn't think of general Boulanger, who was a general, who attempted a coup against the third Republic, which failed, and committed suicide. . But returning to the starting point this novel feels that it is French, since a such liberal plot could only come from the neighboring country. The softer thought of Ivana is that it was a spirited, Rouletabille as smooth is that it was an authentic henpecked and hardest is believed it a libertine. The book is also had some not very flattering comments towards the fair sex. In fact women can be terrible (it will not appeal to feminists, recalled the campaign that was mounted against 'Lost' Gillian Flynn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ) We must prevent excesses or the woman is immune to the original sin, but neither is the Archangel of shamelessness or evil with which it want us to present. With all this novel had not been the same without a constant of French film noir which is the femme fatal. In this case embodied by Teodora Luigi a dominatrix is supposed to, you need to get away from Dr. Boulanger. Despite the narrative, I think, should make it clear what they think of the Doctor Boulanger is a very selfish, mean-spirited, and hedonistic, man who thinks only with his virile member. It is very difficult to empathize with such specimen. In true turned, albeit cruel one feels that Rouletabille seek its own destiny allowing that his wife was the object of desire of Roland Boulanger. We must recognize its Gastón Lerroux which is capable of making us doubt if Ivana has been unfaithful to Rouletabille, and they are also very well described the damage that can cause jealousy , and mistrust. Had not seen anything like this since the valiant "Othello" moorish https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... novel has many twists, and I am going to give a clue without telling them nothing, and is that element that uses Gastón Lerroux will use it also S.S. Van Dine in some of his novels of Philo Vance https://www.goodreads.com/series/6593... we have said, that one of the achievements of this novel is to choose a man who reveres Rouletabille, but as the Oscar of Lupin Sainclaire as Narrator has lost his faith in women. The author very well force the psychology of Rouletabille, which is not very different from the killer that will face. Yet despite the giro, ramming, that to me reminds me of "Psychosis" Bloch/Hictchcock https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... because that's the only error that blamed him to books D'epoca reveal too much in the argument from the back I would have produced a greater effect if it had focused on counting only the flirtation between Ivana and Boulenger (very ambiguous), but I think that I know the truth from the novel. The beauty of the subject is precisely what Rouletabille won't save Similarly, but protect the honor of his wife. There is a very large criticism against society, being able to praise the husband, who kills by jealousy. It is good that criticism that skillfully glide Sainclair and Lerroux. Anyway, for 2/3 of the novel began to have doubts of Lerroux did not seem to the writer, who amazed me with the books mentioned at the beginning. Dialogue with Hébert, and research found me borest not only did not feel any emotion, but it gave bridles of boredom. I must say, it only remained, because I wanted to read another book, to overcome the challenge of Goodreads. Not even a scene on a train, or the pursuit of an essential witness were able to rescue me from my stupor, but then Gastón Lerroux showed me (as a good Frenchman) could be big as Napoleon, as you would say Chesty. A Sir Walter Scott had certainly made me https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... is to say, for 2/3 had not spent anything, but in the last third Gasdtón Lerroux and Rouletabille give us a lesson on how write a masterpiece. Turning, ramming the novel in his latest novel is masterly, even if I found out who was the murderer, but I didn't, because I liked this turn. As says my capable Don Juan Manuel de Prada https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... appeared evil disguised as well. The character reminded me of the of the Farisea of Francois Mauriac https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.... Although one knows it can not feel a thrill when Rouletabille points to the culprit, and unmasks him during the trial. It's funny, because it uses a trick to as employment one of my favorite characters Henri Lagarderé in one of my favorite novels (and my grandfather) "Le Bossu" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... I loved this Gastón Lerroux tribute to Paul Féval, and his fictional character. I don't know if the people you will know, but Feval was one of the pioneers of the detective novel, and was Secretary to Emile Gaboriou https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... Lecoq and Tabaret creator. This novel is very French, because there is a pique with the school of English detection. Let us remember that Maurice Leblanc had to bite the dust to Sherlock Holmes (although had to change the name, because Conan Doyle did not give him rights that appear in the saga of the Knight Ladrón de Lupin). Lerroux gets with Sherlock Holmes, and they say that the followers of his school are likely to fail by not follow reason. It should be remembered that Sherlock Holmes in "Study in scarlet" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... is got with Agust Dupin and Tabaret, saying that he would have resolved the Lerouge case in seconds. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... when Rouletabille used that trick with the judge saying Lagardere is not dead, I only could think the same as the Plimpson nurse in "Test charge" also with the same voice of Elsa Lanchester "Rouletabille Fox", perhaps was not very Orthodox trick of catching the murderer, but living God, who had no other remedy. Other mini-fallo that I see is that I doubt, that being the defendant the judge let you to do the stunt that makes Rouletabille, but anyway in the name of the good show everything is lawful. Only by the final third reading it. They will thank you. My next criticism before I go on vacation will be "about the conquest of Mexico" Iván Vélez.
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Damas y caballeros como escribí en mi crítica anterior ayer pasé una velada literaria inolvidable. Decía el gran G.K. Chesterton “Que nunca se está más cerca del Paraíso que cuando se lucha una batalla que estaba perdida y se consigue ganar”. Supongo, que lo mismo pasa con un libro. Yo soy un gran admirador del escritor francés Gaston Lerroux al que seguramente la mayoría conoceréis por su maravillosa novela gótica convertida en musical por Andrew Lloyda Webber “El fantasma de la Opera”, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... que le ha hecho el mismo favor a la Opera de Garnier, que le hizo Víctor Hugo a Notredame de París en su novela “Nuestra Señora de París” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... . Es injusto, a mí modo de ver, que el musical de Andrew Lloyd Webber se haya comido a la maravillosa novela del genial escritor francés. Llevada varias veces a la gran pantalla interpretada por Asia Argento (ahora de moda por el me too), Julian Sands, pero a mí la versión que más me gusta es la de Joel Schumacher con los excepcionales Gerard Butler (si aunque me linchen uno de mis actores favoritos. Aunque últimamente por cuestiones ideológicos ya no me gusta casi ningún actor), Patrick Wilson, y la adorable Emmy Rossum haciendo de Christine Dae. Sin embargo, Gastón Lerroux, que para mí es uno de los mejores escritores de Francia, sin duda uno de mis favoritos fue uno de los pioneros del misterio en una habitación cerrada, que es dónde aparece por primera vez el héroe de esta historia Rouletabille, o Joseph Josephin. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... novela elogiada por todos los amantes de la novela policíaca entre ellos mi Chesty https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... que llego a llamar a Gastón Lerroux, para diferenciarlo de su colega Maurice Leblanc https://www.goodreads.com/series/4131... (debemos recordar, que es el creador de Arsené Lupin el Caballero Ladrón del que se hizo una serie de Anime muy buena) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... . A uno le llamaba el Caballero Blanco, y a Lerroux el caballero rojo. Sin embargo si estos no fueran suficientes méritos Gastón Lerroux también era un genio de la novela de terror todavía recuerdo la angustia, y el miedo que pase leyendo “La esposa del sol” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... dónde al igual que en la versión antigua de The Wicker Man en esta novela se resucitaban los antiguos sacrificios paganos incas. Además reescribió los mitos de Drácula, y de Frankenstein https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... (aún no he leído “La máquina de asesinar”), pero desde luego “La muñeca sangrienta” a mí me gusto más que la novela de Bram Stoker (matizó bastante más) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... Sus villanos son terroríficos sin necesidad de tener superpoderes. Yo desde luego prefiero a Erik, o a Benoit Casson que al Conde Transilvano. Creo, que la “muñeca sangrienta” aún me produce pesadillas.
Como se ha dicho en la primera página de mi crítica uno de los personajes icónicos de Gastón Lerroux el Rouletabille el otro es Cheri Bibi. Del que aún no he podido leer nada. Esta novela “El crimen de Rouletabille” o “El misterio de París” es la séptima de la saga, así que me he perdido muchos de los avatares vitales de Rouletabille. No sé, como conoció a su esposa Ivana, conocida como la lobezna de los Balcanes, que fue decisiva, para salvarle la vida al protagonista en “El castillo negro”, sé gracias al maravilloso prólogo de Libros d`Época https://www.depoca.es/ que en la segunda parte de sus aventuras tuvo, que volver a enfrentarse a Ballmeyer, que en otra de sus novelas se casa con la bella Ivana, y que en otra escribe una novela de espionaje en la que Rouletabille debe espiar a los alemanes, y que a G.K. Chesterton no le gusto. Esta novela pudo estar inspirada en “Los quinientos millones de la Begum” de Julio Verne (que fue el último suspenso, que he puesto) y es posible, que “El Castillo Negro” tenga que ver con “El castillo de los Carpatos” también de Julio Verne https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . Debo reconocer, que uno de los grandes atractivos del “Crimen de Rouletabille” es precisamente el excelente prólogo de la editorial Libros D`Época, que me ha ayudado a conocer un poco más al autor, y familiarizarme más con Rouletabille. Es un trabajo de edición excelente, y lo más probable es que no sea el último libro de Libros D`´Epoca que compre.
Con todo debo reconocer una cosa, y es que en un momento a pesar de que Lerroux rescata al primer narrador de la saga de Rouletabille Gatón Sainclair no terminó esta novela de engancharme durante 2/3. De hecho, las primeras cien páginas me parecieron muy desagradables. Por mucho, que te lo pida una persona no me parece bien, que tú permitas que tu esposa para salvar a un científico sea el objeto de sus atenciones. La pareja se llamaba Boulenger, y yo mientras tanto no dejaba de pensar en el general Boulanger, que fue un general, que intentó dar un golpe de Estado contra la Tercera República, que fracasó, y se suicidó. Pero volviendo al punto inicial esta novela se nota que es francesa, ya que una trama tan liberal sólo podría proceder del país vecino. Lo más suave que pensaba de Ivana es que era una casquivana, y de Rouletabille lo más suave es que era un auténtico calzonazos y lo más duro es que lo consideraba un libertino. El libro está teñido también de algunos comentarios no halagadores hacia el bello sexo. De hecho la mujer puede ser terrible (lo que no agradará a las feministas, cabe recordar la campaña que se montó contra “Perdida” de Gillian Flynn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... ) hay que evitar los excesos ni la mujer es inmune al pecado original, pero tampoco es el Arcángel de impudor ni de maldad con que nos la quieren presentar. Con todo esta novela no hubiera sido lo mismo sin una constante del cine negro francés que es la femme fatal. En este caso encarnada por Teodora Luigi una dominatriz a la que se supone, que hay que alejar del Doctor Boulanger. A pesar de la narración, creo, que conviene dejar claro lo que pienso del Doctor Boulanger que es un hombre muy egoísta, mezquino, y hedonista, que sólo piensa con su miembro viril. Es muy difícil empatizar con semejante espécimen. En cierto sentido, aunque sea cruel uno tiene la sensación de que Rouletabille se buscó su propio destino permitiendo que su mujer fuera el objeto de deseo de Roland Boulanger. Hay que reconocer la maestría de Gastón Lerroux que es capaz de hacernos dudar de si Ivana le ha sido infiel a Rouletabille, y también están muy bien descritos el daño que pueden hacer los celos, y la desconfianza. No había visto algo similar desde el valiente moro “Otelo” https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... La novela tiene muchos giros, y les voy a dar una pista sin decirles nada, y es que el elemento que usa Gastón Lerroux lo usará también S.S. Van Dine en algunas de sus novelas de Philo Vance https://www.goodreads.com/series/6593... Ya hemos dicho, que uno de los aciertos de esta novela es escoger a Sainclaire como narrador un hombre que venera a Rouletabille (sigue en los comentarios)
July 6, 2020
Un misterio en París, es una novela de detectives, de la saga de novelas del periodista metido a detective Rouletabille. Es una novela de principios del siglo 20. La mujer de Rouletabille, Ivana, y su jefe el investigador Boulenge son asesinados en una vivienda de este último. Ivana y Boulenge están trabajando en un proyecto y, además, parece que han empezado un romance. En un primer momento se culpa del crimen a Rouletabille, y este tendrá que demostrar su inocencia buscando al verdadero asesino.
Me encantan las novelas de misterios y detectives, y esta novela, no llegando a enamorarme del todo, me ha gustado. Entiendo que en su época fuera un éxito ya que supongo que sería muy novedosa en su planteamiento, pero yo, no sé si será por todas las novelas de este tipo que he leído, sabía quien era el asesino, casi desde el principio. Aún así me ha entretenido mucho su lectura, aunque si he encontrado la narrativa un poco densa y rebuscada. Novela entretenida para pasar un buen rato.
Me encantan las novelas de misterios y detectives, y esta novela, no llegando a enamorarme del todo, me ha gustado. Entiendo que en su época fuera un éxito ya que supongo que sería muy novedosa en su planteamiento, pero yo, no sé si será por todas las novelas de este tipo que he leído, sabía quien era el asesino, casi desde el principio. Aún así me ha entretenido mucho su lectura, aunque si he encontrado la narrativa un poco densa y rebuscada. Novela entretenida para pasar un buen rato.
April 30, 2022
If you're someone like me who would like to read all the Joseph Rouletabille novels but cannot speak French, good luck. Finding English translations of some of these is a battle, and The Crime of Rouletabille was no exception. Even the edition I read claimed that an English translation of The Crime of Rouletabille didn't exist, despite BEING that very translation! Incorrect naming and numbering makes the whole experience confusing.
Things I did not care for:
-Sainclair is back. Sorry, I just do not like this character and generally prefer the narration of the books in this series that are written from a third-person narrator.
-Jealous Rouletabille. I appreciate seeing cracks in his hyper-rational POV but it was a little too strong for such a ridiculous situation that it felt a touch contrived here.
-The ending was super abrupt. We get Rouletabille revealing the truth and then a closing paragraph by Sainclair. Nothing more. It would have been nice to at least get some denoument here, especially considering just how stressful the situation must have been for Rouletabille himself. But no.
What I did like:
-Rouletabille on the lam is great. The man should have gotten into theater. I was having such a genuinely good time I have to give this at least a 3 or 4.
-The entire exchange when Rouletabille was sharing a train cabin with an undercover police officer. The level of 4-D chess playing these jerks were engaged in was phenomenal.
-Rouletabille's concern being more about exonerating his wife's reputation than his own. I wish I could have known more about his prior experience with Ivana - too bad an English translation of THAT novel really DOESN'T seem to exist. Ugh. The search for the remainder of this series continues.
Things I did not care for:
-Sainclair is back. Sorry, I just do not like this character and generally prefer the narration of the books in this series that are written from a third-person narrator.
-Jealous Rouletabille. I appreciate seeing cracks in his hyper-rational POV but it was a little too strong for such a ridiculous situation that it felt a touch contrived here.
-The ending was super abrupt. We get Rouletabille revealing the truth and then a closing paragraph by Sainclair. Nothing more. It would have been nice to at least get some denoument here, especially considering just how stressful the situation must have been for Rouletabille himself. But no.
What I did like:
-Rouletabille on the lam is great. The man should have gotten into theater. I was having such a genuinely good time I have to give this at least a 3 or 4.
-The entire exchange when Rouletabille was sharing a train cabin with an undercover police officer. The level of 4-D chess playing these jerks were engaged in was phenomenal.
-Rouletabille's concern being more about exonerating his wife's reputation than his own. I wish I could have known more about his prior experience with Ivana - too bad an English translation of THAT novel really DOESN'T seem to exist. Ugh. The search for the remainder of this series continues.
February 24, 2018
Un roman incroyable !
comme quoi il faut toujours se méfier des apparences. Ce roman pour l'entamer j'aurais préféré ne pas avoir lu la préface. Mais, cela ne m'a pas empêché a suivre l'histoire avec passion.
Un excellent roman a lire.
Amanda.
comme quoi il faut toujours se méfier des apparences. Ce roman pour l'entamer j'aurais préféré ne pas avoir lu la préface. Mais, cela ne m'a pas empêché a suivre l'histoire avec passion.
Un excellent roman a lire.
Amanda.
February 4, 2021
3.5/5 - Ha sido un sí pero no pero casi. Agatha Christie me ha malacostumbrado 😔
March 31, 2021
Magnifica. Deseando estoy de leer algo más de este autor.
March 4, 2025
Entretenido y bien construido.
February 8, 2023
Otro libro de Gaston Leroux que leo. Otra magnífica sensación e imborrable recuerdo. Plot twist elevado a la máxima potencia. Si te gustan las novelas tipo Who did It? (¿Quién lo hizo?) esta figurará entre tus predilectas.
Rouletabille es casi arquetípico. Es el listillo de la clase: sagaz, vehemente, avispado y astuto. Audaz también. A mí —que lo conocí en El misterio del cuarto amarillo— me recuerda mucho al candoroso Padre Brown de Chesterton. Esa manera discreta y perspicaz de resolver los misterios, esa clarividencia ante lo que pasa inadvertido a los demás. Esa capacidad de demostrar sus posturas desde una dialéctica arrolladora.
Ahora, toca hablar de la edición. Ésta en concreto es de la Editorial dÉpoca, cima absoluta en el tratamiento de las obras que forman parte de sus diversas colecciones. Esta pieza forma parte de su colección dÉpoca Noir. El diseño del libro es una delicia. Tapa blanda con unos hendiduras que permiten abrirlo en generoso ángulo para leer, sin menoscabar el lomo. Una ilustración de portada e interiores que es una exquisitez, no ya por su valor artístico, que también, sino por su consonancia con la atmósfera de la época en que se desenvuelve la historia. Esas deliciosas capitulares al principio de cada episodio... No cabe duda que contribuye a exacerbar la atmósfera, el "rollo" que transmite la novela.
Pero además viene con una completa presentación del autor y con unas anotaciones a pie de página de enorme utilidad para entender mejor la novela en sí misma.
Una joya. Uno se pregunta por qué no es este el estándar del mercado, uno al que deberían darse todos. Como no lo es, habrá que disfrutar de las propuestas literarias de esta editorial tan única como notable en su calidad.
Rouletabille es casi arquetípico. Es el listillo de la clase: sagaz, vehemente, avispado y astuto. Audaz también. A mí —que lo conocí en El misterio del cuarto amarillo— me recuerda mucho al candoroso Padre Brown de Chesterton. Esa manera discreta y perspicaz de resolver los misterios, esa clarividencia ante lo que pasa inadvertido a los demás. Esa capacidad de demostrar sus posturas desde una dialéctica arrolladora.
Ahora, toca hablar de la edición. Ésta en concreto es de la Editorial dÉpoca, cima absoluta en el tratamiento de las obras que forman parte de sus diversas colecciones. Esta pieza forma parte de su colección dÉpoca Noir. El diseño del libro es una delicia. Tapa blanda con unos hendiduras que permiten abrirlo en generoso ángulo para leer, sin menoscabar el lomo. Una ilustración de portada e interiores que es una exquisitez, no ya por su valor artístico, que también, sino por su consonancia con la atmósfera de la época en que se desenvuelve la historia. Esas deliciosas capitulares al principio de cada episodio... No cabe duda que contribuye a exacerbar la atmósfera, el "rollo" que transmite la novela.
Pero además viene con una completa presentación del autor y con unas anotaciones a pie de página de enorme utilidad para entender mejor la novela en sí misma.
Una joya. Uno se pregunta por qué no es este el estándar del mercado, uno al que deberían darse todos. Como no lo es, habrá que disfrutar de las propuestas literarias de esta editorial tan única como notable en su calidad.
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