The Phantom of the Opera (Ribière translation) - Gaston Leroux torrent

Category: Horror, Literature
Language: EnglishKeywords: Detective Horror Literature
Written by Gaston Leroux
Read by Arty Froushan
Format: MP3
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Unabridged
A New, Unabridged Translation of Gaston Leroux’s Novel
This new version, based on the 1910 edition of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra published in Paris by Éditions Pierre Lafitte, differs significantly from previous translations of the novel, most notably as regards the descriptions of the Paris Opera House designed by Charles Garnier. Gaston Leroux, who was a journalist and a theatre critic, had first-hand knowledge of the building and borrowed extensively from Garnier’s Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris (1878). The descriptive passages are therefore based on English architectural treatises whose authors clearly consulted the same reference material as the novelist. As befits a work of popular fiction, readability was of prime concern, particularly with regard to sentence structure, but historical accuracy in terms of usage seemed equally important to convey the flavour of the literature of the time. This new translation also provided a unique opportunity to evoke the prose of the English and American writers Leroux so admired – Conan Doyle, Dickens, Poe – through the use of distinctive phrases.
A New, Unabridged Translation of Gaston Leroux’s Novel
This new version, based on the 1910 edition of Le Fantôme de l’Opéra published in Paris by Éditions Pierre Lafitte, differs significantly from previous translations of the novel, most notably as regards the descriptions of the Paris Opera House designed by Charles Garnier. Gaston Leroux, who was a journalist and a theatre critic, had first-hand knowledge of the building and borrowed extensively from Garnier’s Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris (1878). The descriptive passages are therefore based on English architectural treatises whose authors clearly consulted the same reference material as the novelist. As befits a work of popular fiction, readability was of prime concern, particularly with regard to sentence structure, but historical accuracy in terms of usage seemed equally important to convey the flavour of the literature of the time. This new translation also provided a unique opportunity to evoke the prose of the English and American writers Leroux so admired – Conan Doyle, Dickens, Poe – through the use of distinctive phrases.