Gaston Leroux
Born
in Paris, FranceMay 06,
Died
April 15,
Genre
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Influences
Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, StendhalAlexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Stendhalmore
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Gaston 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, ), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, such as the film starring Lon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. It was also the basis of the novel Phantom by Susan Kay.
Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Then in , 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 Gaston 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, ), which has
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Gaston Leroux est un des deux ou trois écrivains français qui ont fondé le roman populaire du xxe siècle. À la suite d&#;Émile Gaboriau, et parallèlement à Maurice Leblanc, son exact contemporain, il a introduit, dans un genre où les péripéties romanesques restaient dominantes, l&#;énigme criminelle et le dénouement raisonné, dont le développement allait très vite déboucher sur le roman policier.
Né à Paris le 6 mai , de parents normands, Gaston Leroux passe son enfance dans le pays de Caux et fait ses études au collège d&#;Eu. Il revient à Paris pour y étudier le droit, et s&#;inscrit effectivement au barreau où il plaide, pendant quelques mois, en correctionnelle. Mais il s&#;y ennuie beaucoup. En , il quitte le barreau pour le marbre et devient chroniqueur judiciaire à L&#;Écho de Paris et au Matin : il y donnera, notamment, les comptes rendus d&#;audience de l&#;affaire Dreyfus.
En , le voici grand reporter. Il réussit quelques interviews retentissantes, comme celle de Nordenskjöld de retour du pôle Sud, et celle du prince d&#;Orléans. De à , il se trouve en Russie, où il réalise de remarquables reportages sur la guerre russo-japo
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Leroux was a French novelist who wrote in the Gothic style—a type of prose that gave primacy to the irrational and inexplicable, and a reaction to the calculated, progressive, and scientific aura of Victorian-era literature. He is best known for his work, The Phantom of the Opera, which gained more fame decades later through various film renditions, and most notably through Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatrical version (that in became the longest-running Broadway show in history).
After completing his education, Leroux worked as a clerk in a law office and wrote essays and short stories in his free time. By he had become a full-time journalist, and from to he sailed the world as a correspondent, reporting back to Paris various adventures in which he took part (notably during the Russian Revolution of ). In the early s he began writing novels. In , The Phantom of the Opera appeared serially, before publication as a novel; it received only moderate sales and somewhat poor reviews. Leroux published several other novels and a few plays, but he never achieved wide fame as a writer of horror and crime stories—excep
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() French author of mystery novels who remains best known for Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (23 September January Le Gaulois; ; trans Alexander Texeira de Mattos as The Phantom of the Opera), a tale of horror filmed in (re-released with sound ), , , (for television), and (for television) and used as the basis for the highly successful musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber ( ) (see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy on this title and on Leroux in general). In crime fiction he is also noted for Le mystère de la chambre jaune ["The Mystery of the Yellow Room"] (September-November L'Illustration; ), an early locked-room mystery highly praised by John Dickson Carr and others. Le Roi Mystère ["The Mystery King"] ( Le Matin; ), deeply influenced by Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo (), has supernatural moments. His first novel of direct genre interest, La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet (5 October November Le Matin as "Le Chercheur de trésors"; ; trans anon as The Double Life; new trans Edgar Jepson as The Man with the Black Feather), is a horror
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