Like Conan Doyle, who often appeared embarrassed or hindered by the success of Sherlock Holmes and seemed to regard his success in the field of crime fiction as a detraction from his more "respectable" literary ambitions, Leblanc also appeared to have resented Lupin's success. Clearly created at editorial request, it is possible that Leblanc had also read Octave Mirbeau's Les 21 jours d'un neurasthénique (1901), which features a gentleman thief named Arthur Lebeau, and he had seen Mirbeau's comedy Scrupules (1902), whose main character is a gentleman thief.īy 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories. The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories that was serialized in the magazine Je sais tout, starting in No. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc ( / l ə ˈ b l ɑː n/ French: 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Marguerite Wormser (after 1895, married 1906).Montparnasse cemetery (since October 14, 1947)ĭetective fiction, science fiction, psychological novel.Saint-Martin cemetery in Perpignan (NovemOctober 11, 1947).
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