Biography
Vladimir Lenin referred to the works of Gaston Lero in the articles. The most famous novel in the bibliography of the Frenchman inspired in the last quarter of the XX century Englishman Andrew Lloyd Webber to create the famous musical, and Frederick Forsight - to write a sequel. It is not known whether the protection of the St. Petersburg "Dismemberment" and the prominent Francofil Oleg Sokolova uses this argument, but Peru Gaston has aphorism:"If someone cut a woman into pieces and put it in his oven, this does not mean that this someone killed her."Childhood and youth
Describing my biography, the writer joked that he was born on the train. This is not quite so. Gaston - the firstborn of the construction contractor Alfred Leru and his chosen of Marie-Alfonsons Bido. Parents who bred to legalize the relationship only a month after his appearance on the world, drove from the city of Le Mans to Normandia, where Alfred received an order for the reconstruction of the castle in Saint-Valery-An-Co.
During movement in Paris from one station to another, fights began, and Gaston was born in the house 66 on Fobur Street Saint-Martin of the French capital. When after many years the writer decided to see the place where I published the first cry, it turned out that the apartment was rented a funeral bureau.
Gaston grew up in a continuous, but mobile and mischievous boy, fond of swimming, rowing and fishing. Lerru was friends with the heir to the Burbon Dynasty Philip Orleans, who were leisured with the future writer in the same class of the college of the town of E.
Subsequently, Alfred and Marie-Alphonsin gave life to three more children - the sons of Joseph and Henri and the daughter of Helen. Parents died when Gaston was 21 years old, and the young man who had already graduated from the University of Paris and received the title of lawyer, took a sister and younger brothers. The firstborn of the four Lero was particularly close to Joseph, who was devoted to his most famous work "Ghost Opera".
Personal life
Gaston was married twice. The first union, concluded with the zealous Catholica Marie Lefrank at the end of the XIX century, did not bring a man or happiness in personal life, no children. The voltage between spouses gave birth not only by the traveling of the reporter. Marie considered an invalid mind of the argument of her husband about the "parallel worlds" and believed that by publishing them, Lero will publish himself and the family.In 1902, Gaston broke up with the first spouse and almost simultaneously met in Switzerland with a charming girl Zhanna Kayatet, who became a companion of his life. The status of the official wife's beloved of the writer only in 1917, when their joint children, son Alfred Gaston Dita Miki and the daughter Madeleine, was 12 and 9 years old. Before that, Marie did not give a writer divorce. Wedding returned to Gaston's relationship and Zhanna passion.
The daughter became the prototype of Kanzonetta - the character of Roman Leru "Tulamore, or Kill Death," Madeleine played a heroine in the adaptation of the work in 1920. Lero Junior described the Father as Gourmet, a merry and trangrist, who did not favor the secular life of Paris and who stacked out of the house in Nice to the capital only at extreme necessity. This did not prevent Veronica's license of Veronica in the 18th district of Paris near Montmartra restaurant, named after the Grand Ancestor.
Creation
Gaston noted that the "Demon of Literature" visited him back in college. The first works of the beginning of the author became poems and stories. In the press, the young man debuted the novel "Small Fried Potato Merchant".
After three years of work, the lawyer Leru realized that the jurisprudence was not his luckee, and switched to journalism. Judicial chronicles, interviews with criminals and lawyers, essays about theatrical premieres became a skate of a young reporter.
Gaston first of the journalists talked with the Swedish conqueror of the Southern Pole Otto Nordenšeld. The championship belonged to Lero and in the publication of reports from the Arab East. Gaston and Zhanna visited Pompeii when there was an eruption of Vesuvius, which made the materials of a former lawyer exclusive.
Special place in Lerre journalism is occupied by reports from Russia. The Frenchman visited not only in St. Petersburg and Moscow, but also in Baku with Odessa. Suitants from Russia subsequently repeatedly became characteristics of the works of the writer.
The laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature Albert Camus noted that Lero reporter knew how to describe not only gestures and the faith of heroes of reports, but also the smell of gunpowder and the hum of crowds. Possession of the word led Gaston from journalism to literature. In 1902, his native newspaper "MATEN" published the story of Lero "Three Desires", and in 1903 Roman-Faketon "Double Life Theofrast Long" was printed.
After 4 years, Gaston delighted the readers of the "hermetic" detective "Mystery of the Yellow Room", in which the beloved hero of Lerru Joseph Rullabiy, named after the brother of the writer appeared. The detective deliberately discharged by the author completely opposite Sherlock Holmesu Arthur Conan Doyle. Rutalabi is not a tin English gentleman, but a volcano passion.
The mysteriousness of the plot and the surprise of the junction of Lero surpassed its predecessor Edgar Allan by. The continuation of the "secrets of the yellow room" competing by the number of shields only with the "Ghost Opera" was the novel "Perfume Ladies in Black".
The works of Lero repeatedly rejected with the novels of other French prose. Thus, in the traditions of Jules, the Dilogy ("Captain X" and the "invisible battle") was written, and the hero of several Gaston's books "noble convict" Sheri Bibibi reminds Jean Valzhana - Protagonist Roman Viktor Hugo "Rejected".
Death
Death came to Gaston, when the number written by the former journalist works surpassed the number of years lived. Without surviving three weeks to the 59th anniversary and working on the 63rd book, Lero died at the midst of April 1927. The causes of the death of the writer were uremia (inflammation of urinary tract) and the consequences of an unsuccessful operation.The writer was buried on the castle cemetery (Chateau) in Nice. There are also the graves of the "Father of Russian Socialism" - the publicist Alexander Herzen and the founder of Mercedes Emille Elelenka. A year after the death of Gaston Zhanna Lero, the essays of the husband about Russia in the book "Agonye of the White Russia" book, the translation of which in Kharkov came under the heading "Agony of Tsarist Russia".
The works of the detector of the French detective continue to enjoy the interest of the readers and after almost the century after the death of the author. In 2020, in the Russian Federation, Lerru "Rutabii's Rutabius" and Roalbius in Kruppa, and called "1905, were reprinted in the Russian Federation. The rehearsal of the catastrophe "published a new translation of the" agony of Tsarist Russia ".
Bibliography
- 1903 - "Double Life of Theofrast Long"
- 1907 - "Mystery of the Yellow Room"
- 1908 - "Perfume Ladies in Black"
- 1909 - "Enchanted Chair"
- 1910 - "Ghost Opera"
- 1911 - "Balao"
- 1913 - "The first adventures of Sheri Bibi"
- 1913 - "Rutabius at the King"
- 1916 - "The man who returned from afar"
- 1917 - "Captain X"
- 1919 - "New Adventures of Sheri Bibi"
- 1923 - "Bloody Doll"
- 1923 - "Murder Machine"
- 1925 - "Golden Mansard"
- 1927 - "Mr. Flow" ("man about hundred faces")