Retracing the Gothic Romance: Instances of Transtextuality in Gaston Leroux’s Le fantôme de l’opéra and Alejandro Amenábar’s Abre los ojos

Marta Miquel Baldellou

doi:10.18002/ehf.i45.7706

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Marta Miquel Baldellou Universidad de Lleida

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https://doi.org/10.18002/ehf.i45.7706

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Gothic tradition, Byronic hero, mask, the double, metaliterature

Abstract

This article aims to offer a comparative analysis between Gaston Leroux’s novel Le fantôme de l’opéra (1910) and Alejandro Amenábar’s film Abre los ojos (1997) in which Amenábar’s film will be interpreted as a postmodern adaptation of Leroux’s original novel. This analysis will also identify those traits pertaining to the Gothic tradition and the nineteenth-century Gothic romance as reflected in Leroux’s modernist approach and reinterpreted in Amenábar’s postmodern film on the basis of the notion of transtextuality.

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