Short biography of gaston leroux jr

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.

What inspired gaston leroux to write the phantom of the opera

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—except among mystery aficionados. Thanks to a never-ending supply of adaptations into other media, it would be almost impossible to Remember me. Forgot your password?