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Making the shadow conscious: the enduring legacy of Gaston Leroux.

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From: Symposium
Date: 20010922
Author:Wildgen, Kathryn E.

The most significant of [Jung's] paintings [...] is the one called Encounter with the Shadow. It shows a figure with a face like an animal, dressed in an elaborate opera cloak. (Wilson 81)

GASTON LEROUX'S 1910 NOVEL, Le Fantome de l'Opera, has inspired countless movies, television scripts, and stage plays, most notably--and successfully--Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical masterpiece, Phantom of the Opera. (1) The popularity of this novel is nearly incomprehensible; it features a ludicrous plot, cardboard characters, and careless writing studded with seemingly gratuitous italics. ...

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