I get that Erik definitely represents some ideas of sexuality, or at least of that Gothic idea of the unknown and unacceptable (which includes sex along with a bunch of other stuff like racial Otherness, drug usage, and other stuff that nineteenth century writers were Kinda Freaked Out About), but Leroux’s Phantom has very little sexual subtext or behavior, so Kay’s habit of making him Sex Incarnate and constantly throwing people at him in the throes of desire (and ALL of them in pretty awful rape/consent-compromise scenarios - the khanum, Javert, Christine, his own mother) comes off as in poor taste to me a lot of the time, and downright creepy at other times.
Shared by:magiq Retelling and expanding upon a well known and beloved classic is risky business. Erik (also known as The Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as The Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Lerouxs novel Le Fantôme de lOpéra (1910), best known to English speakers as The Phantom of the Opera. Thanks to Andrew Lloyd Weber, Gaston Lerouxs Phantom of the Opera has gained a huge.
this novel re-interprets the 1911 novel by Gaston Leroux which tells the story of Erik, facially disfigured. Susan Kay: Phantom Ebook torrent free downloads, 51236. Kay absolutely set out to seriously sexualize the Phantom and his relationships with others, no doubt because of the more romantic spin on the story in the Lloyd Webber musical, and as a result she makes Erik a beign who is inherently sexual, which has always been a pretty weird avenue for me. Phantom by Susan Kay Book condition good. But since we know that Leroux was not a Freudian, and that all of that is wildly developed out of some pretty small inference in Leroux’s novel, it’s not really something I’d say is anywhere close to canon.
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