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Arsène Lupin is the name of a fictional gentleman thief who appears in a book series of detective fiction / crime fiction novels written by French writer Maurice Leblanc, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television, stage play and comic book adaptations. In the Victorian vernacular a gentleman thief is a particularly well-behaving and apparently well bred thief A book series is a sequence of Books with certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group Detective fiction is a branch of Crime fiction in which a Detective (or detectives either professional or amateur investigate a crime usually Murder Crime fiction is the Genre of Fiction that deals with Crimes their detection criminals and their motives It is usually distinguished from A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Maurice-Marie-Émile Leblanc ( 11 November, 1864 - 6 November, 1941) was a French novelist and writer of Short stories, A sequel is a work in Literature, Film, or other media that portrays events following those of a previous work A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative He lent his name to the manga and anime character Arsène Lupin III, who according to the series' canon is his grandson. ˈmɑŋgə is the Japanese word for Comics (sometimes called komikku コミック and print Cartoons In their modern form manga date from shortly (anime in Japanese, is a Fictional character introduced by Monkey Punch in Weekly Manga Action on August 10, 1967. This article is not about Literary canons of influential works of fiction but about the concept of a canon which defines the world of a particular fictional series

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Overview

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in Francophone countries, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887

There are twenty volumes in the Arsène Lupin series written by Leblanc himself, plus five authorized sequels written by the notorious mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac, as well as various pastiches. Boileau-Narcejac is the name by which Pierre Boileau ( Paris, 28 april 1906 - Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 1989 and Pierre Ayraud, The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic Genre.

The character of Lupin was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je Sais Tout, starting in No. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such 6, dated 15 July 1905. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting

Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole. Pierre Alexis Viscount of Ponson du Terrail ( 8 July 1829 - 20 January 1871) was a French Writer. Rocambole is the creation of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, a 19th century French Writer. Like him, he is clearly a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Those whom Lupin defeats, always with his characteristic gallic style and panache, are worse villains than he. Lupin is somewhat similar to A.J. Raffles and anticipates characters such as The Saint. Arthur J Raffles is a character created in the 1890s by E W Hornung, a brother-in-law to Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Overview Simon Templar is known as the Saint because of his initials (ST and also because of his heroic exploits that fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation

The character of Arsène Lupin might have been based by Leblanc on French anarchist Marius Jacob, whose trial made headlines in March 1905, but Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief. Anarchism is a Political philosophy encompassing theories and attitudes which support the elimination of all compulsory Government, i Alexandre Jacob (1879-1954 known as Marius Jacob, was a French anarchist illegalist. Octave Mirbeau ( February 16, 1848 in Trévières - February 16, 1917) was a French Journalist, Art critic

Some lupinophiles/lupinologists/lupinomaniacs disturbingly but somewhat convincingly argue (André Compte-Sponville, François George in Preuves de l'existence d'Arsène Lupin) that Lupin really existed and that Leblanc was thus his mere historiographer.

Bibliography

  1. Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar) (1907) (coll. 9 stories) (online. [1])
  2. Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès (Arsene Lupin vs. Herlock Sholmes) (1908) (coll. 2 stories) (American edition ISBN 1932983147)
  3. L'Aiguille creuse (The Hollow Needle) (1909) (American edition ISBN 0974071196) "A robbery and murder have been committed, and Arsène Lupin, fleeing, is shot from the balcony of a French chateau by a beautiful girl. A young detective, assigned to arrest the villain, is foiled at every turn. "[1]
  4. 813 (1910) "Arsène Lupin is accused of murder. All the evidence points to him, so he undertakes to head the police investigation to find the true murderer. A clock on which the number "813" has particular significance is a vital element in the case, as is a packet of letters written to Bismarck of Germany, who must make several journeys (incognito) to help clear up the mystery. The death-rate, via murder and suicide, is high. "[1]
  5. Le Bouchon de cristal (The Crystal Stopper) (1912)
  6. Les Confidences d'Arsène Lupin (The Confidences Of Arsene Lupin aka The Confessions of Arsene Lupin) (1913) (coll. 9 stories)
  7. L'Éclat d'obus (The Shell Shard) (1916) (mostly appears in a cameo added retroactively).
  8. Le Triangle d'or (The Golden Triangle) (1918)
  9. L’Île aux trente cercueils (The Island Of Thirty Coffins) (1919)
  10. Les Dents du tigre (The Teeth Of The Tiger) (1921) (earlier English edition in 1914)
  11. Arsène Lupin by Edgar Jepson and Maurice Leblanc (1922) An English-language adaptation of the 1908 four-act play. Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863 - 1938 was an English writer principally of mainstream adventure and detective fiction but also of some supernatural and fantasy stories that are better remembered Although Jepson is erroneously listed as a translator by Project Gutenberg [2], he is given first billing as author in the physical volume [3], before Leblanc. Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to Digitize, archive and distribute Cultural works This book apparently has no French original text.
  12. Les Huit Coups de l'horloge (The Eight Strokes Of The Clock) (1923) (coll. 8 stories)
  13. La Comtesse de Cagliostro (The Countess Of Cagliostro) (1924)
  14. La Demoiselle aux yeux verts (The Damsel With Green Eyes) (1927)
  15. L'Agence Barnett et Cie. (The Barnett & Co. Agency) (1928)
  16. La Demeure mystérieuse (The Mysterious Mansion) (1929)
  17. La Barre-y-va (1931)
  18. La Femme aux deux sourires (The Woman With Two Smiles) (1933)
  19. Victor de la Brigade mondaine (Paris-Soir) (1933)
  20. La Cagliostro se venge (The Revenge Of The Countess Of Cagliostro) (1935)
  21. Les Milliards d'Arsène Lupin (The Billions Of Arsene Lupin) (1939)
  22. Le Dernier Amour d'Arsène Lupin (The Last Love of Arsene Lupin) (reportedly unpublished ms. )

By other writers

Notable pastiches

Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes

Arsène Lupin and Sherlock Holmes were bound to meet and, in an unprecedented act of literary pastiche and cross-over, Leblanc introduced Holmes in the short story Sherlock Holmes arrive trop tard in Je Sais Tout No. Pavel Dostál ( February 25, 1943 – July 24, 2005) was a Minister of Culture in the Czech Republic, known for his dynamic Czechs (Češi ˈt͡ʃɛʃɪ archaic Čechové) are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 17, 15 June 1906. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting In it, Holmes meets a young Lupin for the first time. After legal objections from Conan Doyle, the name was changed to "Herlock Sholmes" when the story was collected in book form in Volume 1.

Sholmes returned in two more stories collected in Volume 2, Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes, and then in a guest-starring role in the prodigious battle for the secret of the Hollow Needle in L'Aiguille creuse.

Sherlock Holmes, this time with his real name and accompanied with familiar characters such as Watson and Lestrade, also confronted Arsène Lupin in the 2008 PC 3D adventure game "Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis" (European name: "Sherlock Holmes vs. Arsène Lupin"). In this game you play the role of Holmes (and occasionally of other characters such as Watson and Lestrade) in an effort to discover and stop Lupin from stealing five English valuable items. Lupin wants to steal the items in order to "humilliate" England, but he also admires Holmes and thus challenges him to try and stop him.

He is mentioned once in 813.

Fantasy elements

Several Arsène Lupin novels contain some interesting fantasy elements: a radioactive 'god-stone' that cures people and causes mutations is the object of an epic battle in L’Île aux trente cercueils; the secret of the Fountain of Youth, a mineral water source hidden beneath a lake in the Auvergne, is the goal sought by the protagonists in La Demoiselle aux yeux verts; finally, in La Comtesse de Cagliostro, Lupin’s arch-enemy and lover is none other than Joséphine Balsamo, the alleged granddaughter of Cagliostro himself. Radioactive decay is the process in which an unstable Atomic nucleus loses energy by emitting ionizing particles and Radiation. In biology mutations are changes to the Nucleotide sequence of the Genetic material of an organism The Fountain of Youth is a legendary spring that reputedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks of its waters Joséphine Balsamo aka Countess Cagliosto is a Fictional character who is the best known antagonist of Arsène Lupin, the notorious gentleman burglar created by Count Alessandro di Cagliostro ( 2 June, 1743 – 26 August, 1795) was the alias for the Occultist Giuseppe Balsamo

Films

Arsène Lupin 2004 movie poster
Arsène Lupin 2004 movie poster

Television

Stage

A/L -The Youth of Phantom Thief Lupin-
A/L -The Youth of Phantom Thief Lupin-

Animation

Comics

References in Detective Conan

Kaito Kid from the manga series Magic Kaito and Detective Conan is often compared to Arsene Lupin. Phantom Thief Kid, known in Japan as Kaitou Kid (ja 怪盗キッド Kaitō Kiddo) is a Fictional character is a Shōnen Manga series by Gosho Aoyama. A light-hearted manga about a Thief named Kaitou Kid. Case Closed, known as in Japan and most other countries is a detective Manga and Anime series written and illustrated by Also, Arsene Lupin is mentioned in the Detective Encyclopedia at the end of the manga Case Closed Volume 4.

External links

References

  1. ^ a b Roseman, Mill et al. Detectionary. New York: Overlook Press, 1971. ISBN 0-87951-041-2
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