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LFF - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
« Le fantôme de l’Opéra a existé. Mes recherches dans les documents de l’Académie nationale de musique et mes nombreuses conversations le montrent. Mes visites dans les sous-sols de l’Opéra, ma découverte de son squelette et ma rencontre avec le Persan me permettent de le dire : non, le fantôme n’est pas un mythe ! » Gaston Leroux nous entraîne dans une histoire pleine de suspense, de mystère et d’amour.
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- GenresFrance
96 pages, Paperback
Published July 21, 2021
About the author
Gaston Leroux
1,328 books1,120 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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February 26, 2026
Supongo que está bien. Como no sé francés, no lo puedo decir. Me he enterado entre poco y poquito. Se supone que lo he cogido para aprender francés pero, aunque diría que si he aprendido, de la trama no me he enterado. Ahora voy a hacerme el sábado y opinar con lo poco que sé; es corto y tiene plot twist interesante (si es q pasa lo q creo que pasa)
August 18, 2026
Ich habe nie einen Ausschnitt aus dem Original gelesen, kann deswegen die Art der Vereinfachung des Schreibstils und des Wortschatzes nicht beurteilen. Ich fand diese A2 Ausgabe aber sehr angenehm, um zügig einen Einblick in die Handlung zu bekommen.
November 7, 2024
I'm a little annoyed, but that's mostly cause I ordered this online with the assumption that it was the original text. But that was on me for trying to order French books online. Still feel like I missed out on the prose though. So now I have to go back and read the complete text. One day.
The narrative is obviously classic, and I'd never realised before now how close it is to La Notre-Dame de Paris (another classic piece of French literature, although one I will probably never read).
I was mostly familiar with the musical, having acted in an amateur production of it once upon a time in my misspent youth, and this was pretty different. Lots of characters and plot twists that were written out, and some genuinely quite spooky scenes set in forests and deserts that somehow exist in an opera house? So is it better than the musical? Narratively, absolutely. Musically... Well, there's no music. It's a book.
As far as actual critiques though, the novel gives us no real emotional connection to any of the characters that die, making it feel more like a video game with faceless people falling to the ground on either side of the protagonists, rather than actually distressing kills. And some of the motives did seem a bit muddy to me (but that may be just cause I'm reading it in my 3rd language).
I'd meant it to be a Halloween read but missed the boat cause I got distracted with other stuff. Ah well, it definitely filled the spot. And I enjoyed it. Just docked a few stars cause of my own stupidity. Solid read, definitely good for practicing my French. May even have a look and see which other novels this company has adapted. Maybe.
The narrative is obviously classic, and I'd never realised before now how close it is to La Notre-Dame de Paris (another classic piece of French literature, although one I will probably never read).
I was mostly familiar with the musical, having acted in an amateur production of it once upon a time in my misspent youth, and this was pretty different. Lots of characters and plot twists that were written out, and some genuinely quite spooky scenes set in forests and deserts that somehow exist in an opera house? So is it better than the musical? Narratively, absolutely. Musically... Well, there's no music. It's a book.
As far as actual critiques though, the novel gives us no real emotional connection to any of the characters that die, making it feel more like a video game with faceless people falling to the ground on either side of the protagonists, rather than actually distressing kills. And some of the motives did seem a bit muddy to me (but that may be just cause I'm reading it in my 3rd language).
I'd meant it to be a Halloween read but missed the boat cause I got distracted with other stuff. Ah well, it definitely filled the spot. And I enjoyed it. Just docked a few stars cause of my own stupidity. Solid read, definitely good for practicing my French. May even have a look and see which other novels this company has adapted. Maybe.
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