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EL FANTASMA DE LA OPERA
PREFACIO Donde el autor de esta obra singular cuenta al lector cómo se vio obligado a adquirir la certidumbre de que el fantasma de la Ópera existió realmente. El fantasma de la ópera existió. No fue, como se creyó durante mucho tiempo, una inspiración de artistas, una superstición de, directores, la grotesca creación de los cerebros excitados de esas damiselas del cuerpo de baile, de sus madres, de las acomodadoras, de los encargados del vestuario y de la portería. Sí, existió, en carne y hueso, a pesar de que tomara toda la apariencia de un verdadero fantasma, es decir de una sombra. Desde el momento en que comencé a compulsar los archivos de la Academia Nacional de Música, me sorprendió la asombrosa coincidencia de los fenómenos atribuidos al fantasma, y del más misterioso, el más fantástico de los dramas; y no tardé mucho en pensar que quizá se podría explicar racionalmente a éste mediante aquéllos.
366 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 24, 2023
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Gaston Leroux
1,126 books1,086 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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January 30, 2026
Me ha costado un poco seguir el hilo ya que no he podido leer el libro de seguido.
Tenía muchas expectativas y no me ha decepcionado. Me ha gustado mucho la dualidad del mundo “real” y el del fantasma.
La crítica social está presente, de manera sutil.
Se nota que se escribió en el romanticismo, con los toques góticos que me han encantado.
Tenía muchas expectativas y no me ha decepcionado. Me ha gustado mucho la dualidad del mundo “real” y el del fantasma.
La crítica social está presente, de manera sutil.
Se nota que se escribió en el romanticismo, con los toques góticos que me han encantado.
January 9, 2026
Era lo que esperaba pero me dio algo más que me sorprendió.
Es una historia bastante curiosa pero me mantuvo en época rodeada de lo que es la elegancia y lúgubre estancia de la ópera.
Es una historia bastante curiosa pero me mantuvo en época rodeada de lo que es la elegancia y lúgubre estancia de la ópera.
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