![]() ![]() Or rather, he represents so much as to be a mess of a character. ![]() I don’t think he would have cared about the Commune politically, but I think he would have been very much interested in the arson.ĭoes Erik have a political worldview? For all the references to the Commune and anarchy that Leroux slipped into his character, Erik doesn’t seem to stand for anything other than himself. I think Erik delights in chaos - which is why he is always creating it. I think at the very least he would have come out to watch the fires at the end. ![]() ![]() It made the perfect hideout.īut I disagree with Kay that Erik would have stayed hidden for the entirety of the Commune. Kay writes that Erik is already living in the cellar when the Commune began. If Erik worked on the foundations, he must have been there from the beginning, in 1861. I agree with Kay that Erik must have been in Paris at the time of the 1871 Paris Commune as the Palais Garnier was nearly a completed structure by this time. I wanted to highlight Kay’s interpretation of Erik’s Commune experience as there is a lot I think she got right. I finished Susan Kay’s Phantom just a few months ago. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |