加斯东·勒鲁

加斯东·路易·阿尔弗雷德·勒鲁（法语：Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux，1868年5月6日—1927年4月15日），法国记者、侦探小说家，其代表作为《剧院魅影》和《黄色房间的秘密》。

作品

《大盗回魂》（La double vie de Théophraste Longuet, 1903）

记者侦探胡尔达必（Joseph Rouletabille）系列：

《黄色房间的秘密》（Le mystère de la chambre jaune, 1907）

《黑衣女子的香气》（Le parfum de la dame en noir, 1908）

《歌剧魅影》（Le fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910）

《太阳新娘》（L' épouse du soleil, 1912）

虽然该作只在法语区知名，但艾尔吉就以此故事作为蓝本创作蜚声国际的漫画：《太阳神庙》

《还魂》（L'homme qui revient de loin, 1916）

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (French: [ɡastɔ̃ lwi alfʁɛd ləʁu]; 6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) 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 (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is one of the most celebrated locked room mysteries.

Life and career

Leroux was born in Paris in 1868, the illegitimate child of Marie Bidaut and Dominique Leroux, who married a month after his birth. He claimed an illustrious pedigree, including descent from William II of England (in French, Guillaume le Roux), son of William the Conqueror, and social connections such as having been the official playmate of Prince Philippe, Count of Paris at the college d'Eu in Normandy. After schooling in Normandy and studying as a lawyer in Caen (graduating in 1889), He inherited millions of francs and lived wildly until he nearly reached bankruptcy. 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 1893. He was present at, and covered, the 1905 Russian Revolution.

He left journalism in 1907, after returning from covering a volcanic eruption and being immediately sent on another assignment without vacation time, and began writing fiction. In 1919, he and Arthur Bernède formed their own film company, Société des Cinéromans, publishing novels and turning them into films. He first wrote a mystery novel titled Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1908; English title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe in the United States.

Leroux published his most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, as a serial in 1909 and 1910, and as a book in 1910 (with an English translation appearing in 1911). Balaoo followed in 1911, which was made into a film several times (in 1913, 1927 and 1942).

Leroux was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1909. He died at age 58 in Nice, France, in 1927.

Personal life

Leroux married twice, first to Marie Lefranc from whom he separated in 1902. Following his separation, he then lived with Jeanne Cayatte from Lorraine, with whom he had a son, Gaston, nicknamed Milinkij, and a daughter named Madeleine; they married in 1917 after Lefranc's death. In 1918, he founded a film production company, Société des Cinéromans with René Navarre, and debuted two films, Tue-la-Mort and Il etait deux petits enfants, in which his daughter played the lead role.

Novels

The Adventures of Rouletabille

1907 – Le mystère de la chambre jaune (English translation: The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 1907; Rouletabille and The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2009, translated by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier, ISBN 978-1-934543-60-3)

1908 – Le parfum de la dame en noir (English translation: The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 1908)

1913 – Rouletabille chez le Tsar (Rouletabille and the Tsar; English translation: The Secret of the Night, 1914)

1914 – Rouletabille à la guerre (Rouletabille at War) consisting of

Le château noir (The Black Castle)

Les étranges noces de Rouletabille (The Strange Wedding of Rouletabille;)

1917 – Rouletabille chez Krupp (English translation: Rouletabille at Krupp's, 2013, by Brian Stableford, ISBN 978-1-61227-144-6)

1921 – Le crime de Rouletabille (The Crime of Rouletabille; English translation: The Slave Bangle [UK], 1925; The Phantom Clue [US], 1926, translated by Hannaford Bennett)

1922 – Rouletabille chez les Bohémiens (Rouletabille and the Gypsies; English translation: The Sleuth Hound [UK], 1926; The Octopus of Paris [US], 1927, translated by Hannaford Bennett)