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what was the originality of the phantom?

posted 13 years ago by minamelandme
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was he supposed to be parisian in the original story?

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[–] KatharineFanatic 13 years ago

No one knows for sure; we all just assume his background.

Read Susan Kay's novel, "Phantom." It's really wonderful, tragic, spellbinding, and sad, but fills in a lot of the missing pieces.

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[–] Mentrilo 13 years ago

As I remember it, he was in a travelling circus (and ran away from it), so although the story takes place in Paris, there's no guarantee that he is French.

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[–] BuffySummers-2 12 years ago

IIRC, in the book Erik thought that he, like Christine, was Swedish, but he couldn't remember his last name because his parents had abandoned him as a child.

As if it weren't heartbreaking enough, right?

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