Arsène Lupine

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Sign on the occasion of the centenary in Étretat

Arsène Lupine is a fictional character by the French author Maurice Leblanc . The fictional master thief is extremely popular in France and the French-speaking part of Canada .

characterization

Arsène Raoul Lupine is a born gentleman . Born in 1874 to Henriette d'Andrésy and Théophraste Lupine, Lupine enjoyed an excellent education in law and medicine, specializing in dermatology . In addition to Latin , English and Greek , he is fluent in several modern languages. He is a master of the art of disguise and pretending as well as various martial arts and an outspoken art connoisseur and painter - in the hollow rock needle near Étretat he hoards exquisite art treasures, including the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Lupine knows his genius and it is difficult for him to be humble. The cat and mouse game with the law enforcement officers sometimes seems to be more important to him than personal wealth.

Lupine is adept and posh with women. He hates violence and accordingly only kills in absolute self-defense. Mostly in the novels - as in the real world - he enjoys the sympathy of the general public, since his victims have always come to their wealth in a very questionable way. In the course of time, Lupine rises from the adversary of the authorities to their secret helper - which is certainly also due to the career of its creator.

Compared to Sherlock Holmes (mentioned in Leblanc's books for legal reasons "Herlock Sholmes"), England's famous master detective, Lupine is a certain amount of respect and admiration because it is the only one who drove him more than once cornered. As a true patriot , it is impossible for him to recognize the Victorian system - sometimes he even commits political theft.

Arsène Lupine likes to use pseudonyms for his disguises. Some of them would be:

  • Raoul de Limézy
  • Viscount d'Andrésy
  • Horace Velmont
  • Guillaume Berlat

Emergence

Place of origin of numerous works: the house of Maurice Leblanc in Etretat, today the museum Le Clos Arsène Lupine, Maison Maurice Leblanc

The adventures of Arsène Lupine were described by Maurice Leblanc between 1905 and 1935 in 20 novels, two plays and several short stories. Lupine took his first steps in sequel stories that appeared in the magazine "Je Sais Tout". Leblanc is said to have created the master thief as a counterpart to the very successful Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - one of Leblanc's novels is called Arsène Lupine versus Herlock Sholmes . According to popular belief, the model for Lupine is the anarchist illegalist Marius Jacob , even if Leblanc always denied this.

Other authors, especially the Boileau-Narcejac collective of authors, of which five novels are available, published stories about the master thief Arsène Lupine.

The novels of the Arsène Lupine series represent an important stage in the history of the detective novel because they change the perspective from the detective to the criminal and introduce the new type of gentleman thief. However, the English writer Ernest William Hornung had already developed his own master burglar AJ Raffles .

Movies

There are numerous film adaptations for cinema and television. The most recent film adaptation ( Arsène Lupine - The King Among the Thieves by Jean-Paul Salomé ) is a French production from 2004. The first Hollywood film with Arsène Lupine was made in 1932, and the first silent film was made in 1910. There are also cartoon and comic series based on stories about Arsène Lupine.

Books (in German)

From Maurice Leblanc :

  • A criminal? Marquardt, Berlin 1913
  • Heart sieves . Marquardt, Berlin 1913; Singer, Leipzig 1925
  • The Hollow Needle or The Competitors of Arsène Lupine . Marquardt, Berlin 1914; Diogenes, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-257-20239-3
  • The blue diamond . Schreiter, Berlin 1923; Belle Époque 2017, ISBN 978-3-945796-86-3
  • The mysterious eye . Schreiter, Berlin 1923
  • The black pearl . Schreiter, Berlin 1923
  • The Jewish lamp . Singer, Leipzig 1924
  • The blonde lady . Singer, Leipzig 1925
  • The three crimes of Arsène Lupine . Schreiter, Berlin 1925
  • The Countess of Cagliostro or the youth of Arsène Lupine . Schreiter, Berlin 1925; Lang, Munich 1963; Diogenes, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-257-20933-9
  • The golden triangle . Schreiter, Berlin 1926
  • Eight chimes . Schreiter, Berlin 1927
    • New edition: the clock strikes eight times . Lang, Munich 1964; Diogenes, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-257-21254-2
  • The lady with the green eyes . Schreiter, Berlin 1927
  • Arsène Lupine marries . Knaur, Berlin 1928
  • Arsène Lupine versus Herlock Sholmes . Lang, Munich 1964; Diogenes, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-257-21026-4
  • 813 - The double life of Arsène Lupine . Diogenes, Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-257-20931-2
  • The crystal plug or the misfortunes of Arsène Lupine . Diogenes, Zurich 1971, ISBN 3-257-20932-0
  • Arsène Lupine, the gentleman crook . Diogenes, Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-257-20127-3
  • The island of 30 coffins . Diogenes, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-257-21198-8

By Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

  • Arsène Lupine, the secret of Eunerville. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-548-01706-1
  • Arsène Lupine, the Mareuse affair . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-548-01728-2
  • Arsène Lupin's second face . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-548-01782-4
  • Arsène Lupine ensures justice . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-548-01962-5
  • The Oliveira affair . In: Identities . Crime parodies. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1982, ISBN 3-499-42600-5

Radio plays by the SWR

The SWR has now produced five Arsène Lupine's adventures as radio plays and broadcast them on its 2nd radio program:

  • 2007 - The Countess of Cagliostro or The Youth of Arsène Lupine
  • 2008 - The hollow needle or treasure of the kings of France
  • 2009 - Arsène Lupine and the woman with the jade green eyes
  • 2011 - Arsène Lupine and the island of 30 coffins
  • 2012 - Arsène Lupine versus Herlock Sholmès

museum

Arsène Lupine on a sign to the Le Clos Arsène Lupine museum , Maison Maurice Leblanc in Étretat

In 1999, Maurice Leblanc's granddaughter opened the Museum Le Clos Arsène Lupine, Maison Maurice Leblanc , in the former villa of Maurice Leblanc in Étretat , which houses numerous accessories by the fictional hero.

Trivia

  • In addition to a manga series that has not yet been published in Germany, there is an anime series under the title Lupine III, which has so far only been partially published in Germany , which shows the adventures of an equally thieving descendant of Lupine.
  • In the manga and anime series Hidan no Aria , which has not yet been published in Germany, the duel between the great-great-granddaughter of Arsène Lupine, Riko Mine Lupine the IV and the great-great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes , Aria Kanzaki Holmes the IV , continues as the duel between Arsène Lupine and his adversary Sherlock Holmes ended in a draw and Riko Mine Lupine the IV wants to surpass her great-great-grandfather.
  • In the radio play series about the amateur criminologist Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Augustus Van Dusen by Jacques Futrelle has Arsène Lupine in the case of the Venus de Milo a role as a “gentleman's crook”. His plan is prevented by the professor, but he himself escapes the arm of the law.
  • In the Disney comics with Dagobert Duck there is a character invented by Don Rosa named Arpin Lusene , who also represents a master thief of French origin.
  • Arsène Lupine significantly inspired the character of Kaito Kid (known from Detective Conan or the manga of the same name), who, like his role model, is a gentleman thief and can imitate the looks and voices of others. In addition, in a special, Conan also has to fight the aforementioned Lupine III, one of the few gangsters he does not defeat.
  • In the ninth part of the video game series Final Fantasy , the protagonist can be equipped with the Arsène Lupine ability to increase his chance of being hit when stealing objects.
  • The successful video game series Sly Raccoon , which is also the story of a master thief, was also heavily inspired by the Arsène Lupine books.
  • Jean le Flambeur, the protagonist in Hannu Rajaniemi's science fiction novel The Quantum Thief (German: Quantum , Piper, 2011) is also based on Arsène Lupin's model.
  • In the game Persona 5 , in which the player becomes the leader of the phantom thieves, the initial persona of the protagonist is Arsene, based on Arsène Lupine. The protagonist also lives in a café called "Leblanc", named after the author Maurice Leblanc.
  • Arsène Lupine partly served as a template for the 42nd series of the Japanese superhero series "Super Sentai", called Kaitou Sentai Lupine Ranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, where a team of 3 master thieves, the Lupine rangers, are on the mission to get the dangerous lupine collection back, while a team of 3 police officers, the patrangers, are on their heels.

literature

  • Gérard Guasch: Arsène Lupine. Un cheractère sur le divan . L'Harmattan, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7384-6019-4 .
  • Christoph F. Lorenz: … steals for France. The triumph of Arsène Lupine. In: Ders .: Art pieces. Critical hikes through the adventurous and fantastic literature of the 19th and 20th centuries (German studies in the Blue Owl; Vol. 17). Verlag Die Blaue Eule, Essen 1994, pp. 47-74, ISBN 3-89206-120-3 .
  • André-François Ruaud: Arsène Lupine. Une vie . New edition Les Moutons Électriques, Lyon 2011, ISBN 978-2-361-83065-6 (former title: Les nombreuses vies d'Arsène Lupine ).

Web links

Commons : Arsène Lupine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arsène Lupine? Arsène Lupine: at Matthes & Seitz Berlin as of February 3, 2008
  2. ↑ Le Clos Arsène Lupine, Maison Maurice Leblanc in Étretat (French and English)