He can hear things said in privacy and can create catastrophes that might or might not be the accidents that they seem to be. At the same time, he a dangerous, menacing figure, lurking in the hidden catacombs beneath the opera house and blackmailing those who will not bow to his whims. He is a sensitive soul, an accomplished composer and musician whose great unfinished work, Don Juan Triumphant, is described as breathtakingly beautiful by the one person he allows to hear it he is an object of pity, whose face has been disfigured from birth, causing him to hide behind a silk mask and he is hopelessly in love with a young woman whom he can never seriously hope will love him back.
Its main character, Erik, is a romantic figure whose appeal reaches across different cultures and times.
It was adapted to several popular motion pictures and into one of the most successful stage musicals of all time. Leroux died in Nice on April 15, 1927, of a urinary tract infection.Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, first published in 1910, remained a perennial favorite throughout the twentieth century and into the early 2000s. 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. 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. In 1909, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans to simultaneously publish novels and turn them into films. He suddenly left journalism in 1907, and began writing fiction.
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. Another case he was present at involved the investigation and deep coverage of an opera house in Paris, later to become a ballet house. In 1905 he was present at and covered the Russian Revolution. His most important journalism came when he began working as an international correspondent for the Paris newspaper Le Matin. Then in 1890, he began working as a court reporter and theater critic for L'Écho de Paris. He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. Leroux went to school in Normandy and studied law in Paris, graduating in 1889.
It was also the basis of the 1990 novel Phantom by Susan Kay. 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. Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
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