Much of the verbal and physical abuse Erik suffers from his mother is chronicled in the opening chapters of the novel.įrom a young age, Erik exhibits a strong interest in architecture and is privately tutored by a well-respected professor, but his strongest abilities lie in the subject of music. Erik is forced to spend his childhood locked in his home lest he or his mother become a target for the superstitious villagers. Instead, she instructs the elderly priest who baptises him to name the child after himself. His spoiled, vain mother scorns her deformed child from birth, puts a mask on his face, and cannot bring herself to name him. The Phantom is born as Erik in Boscherville, a small town not far from Rouen, in the summer of 1831. It is a biography of the title character Erik. Phantom is a 1990 novel by Susan Kay, based on the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel The Phantom of the Opera.
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