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Joseph Rouletabille #8
Rouletabille tra i gitani (Il Giallo Mondadori)
Joseph Joséphin detto Rouletabille è un investigatore davvero sui generis. La sua professione è quella del reporter, e come tale firma cronache memorabili dei principali eventi dell'epoca. Ha poi un metodo tutto suo di approfondire i casi che gli vengono assegnati, arrivando alla soluzione armato di un genuino ottimismo positivista. Nella sua carriera si è trovato a indagare su veri e propri atti criminali, come il tentato omicidio della figlia di uno scienziato avvenuto in una camera gialla chiusa dall'interno, ma anche a vivere travolgenti peripezie sullo sfondo di intrighi nella Russia zarista sotto la minaccia di un complotto rivoluzionario, nei Balcani con la Grande Guerra alle porte, o in Germania alla ricerca di uno studioso francese sequestrato dagli agenti del Kaiser. Tutto ciò senza mai perdere il suo leggendario buon umore. Ora Rouletabille deve recarsi in Camargue sulle tracce di Odette, la fidanzata di un aristocratico parigino rapita da una tribù di gitani secondo i dettami di un'antica profezia. Si crede infatti che sia lei la giovane destinata a diventare regina del Popolo della Strada. Così è scritto nel Libro degli Antenati, un'inestimabile reliquia capace di attirare su mani sacrileghe le più terribili sciagure.
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423 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1922
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Gaston Leroux
1,068 books1,083 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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August 17, 2024
Il personaggio di Rouletabille è sicuramente tra i più particolari della storia dei detective che, tra fine ‘800 e l’inizio del 20° secolo, gettarono le basi della letteratura mystery che oggi va per la maggiore. Alcune trovate di questo libro sono sicuramente fantasiose (ma alla fine comunque plausibili), e in alcuni casi lasciano davvero da pensare come si possa essere ingannati in modo così sfacciato come racconta il testo… ma quel che conta è essere appassionati da ciò che si legge e, sebbene lo stile di Leroux sia lontanissimo da come si scrive oggi, certamente la storia è sufficientemente appassionante. Un giallo inusuale, ma da leggere.
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