The Phantom of Manhattan

The Phantom of Manhattan is a novel by Frederick Forsyth, which appeared under the title The Phantom of Manhattan in London in 1999. The novel was published in 2000 in the German translation by Wulf Bergner.

Content

The novel builds less on the classical texts by Gaston Leroux. The plot of the written by Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals Forsyth describes in his preface as the only logical.

In September 1906, the dying Antoinette Giry reveals the notary Dufour, they 've been hiding Mülheim Erik, the Phantom of the Paris Opera, after the tragic events at the Paris Opera, and helped him to his escape to America. The Phantom lives since 1894 on the enclave Coney Iceland, then in 1906 as a millionaire in EM Tower, Park Row, Manhattan. In the course of the novel Erik learns Mülheim that he is the boy of twelve Pierre biological father, whose mother Christine is now a celebrated soprano and wife of Raoul de Chagny. This draws on Pierre as his own son. The climax of the novel is the confrontation Pierre with his real father, the Phantom of the Opera.

Form

The novel is divided into 16 parts and an epilogue. In every part of the different protagonists of the novel to their say and portray the story from their perspective. In this way, the action is mediated by programmatically outside view. The reader must decide whose version instantly appear credible to him. Forsyth prevented by his narrative technique identification or empathy with the rather tragic protagonists and distance achieved in the recipients of the story. Stylistically reminiscent of the structure of Christa Wolf's " Medea: Stimmen".

Edits

The novel was this edited in 2010 by Andrew Lloyd Webber, under the title Love Never as a musical.

Text output

• Frederick Forsyth: The Phantom of Manhattan. German by Wulf Bergner. Bertelsmann. Munich 2000. ISBN 3-570-00325-6

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• Novel, epic
• Work by Frederick Forsyth