Lupine. Series and books about the famous thief by Maurice Leblanc

Arsène Lupin, the famous and elegant thief white glove created by the French writer Maurice leblanc, has been put back Fashion. Or perhaps he always has been, especially in France, where he is one of his most recognized literary characters. It has been thanks to Lupine, in the shadow of Arsène, which reads as a subtitle in the successful television series recently released. Starring the popular French actor Omar Sy, and with his figure and books in the background, it is an excuse to make a review.

Maurice leblanc

Leblanc was born in Ruan fabric en 1864 and began his literary career in Paris. On 1905 created Arsène Lupine, a character who ended up becoming one of the most famous in detective literature.

Lupine is a white-collar thief, cultured, elegant and seductive, who steals from people much worse than himself. He stars in some twenty novels and stories. Many consider Lupine and his stories as the French version of Sherlock Holmes. In fact, just a year after the creation of Lupin, Leblanc wrote a series of stories in which it united the two characters, although Holmes was Herlock Sholmes. 

Arsène Lupine, knight and thief

La primera Lupine's story is considered a legendary piece of pulp literature. Its precedent was a series of stories published in the magazine Je Sais Tout, which would later be published together with this title. It is the first book that his father hands over to the protagonist of the series of TV. It also contains the story The Queen's Necklace, which is part of the plot of the first chapter of the series.

The Countess of Cagliostro and The Hollow Needle

These titles are also mentioned in the series. First contains the fantastic element and supernatural that Leblanc put into the Lupin stories. Here, for example, the thief confronts the heiress of the Duke of Cagliostro, an immortal evil and transcript of the Holmesian Professor Moriarty.

Lupine - The Serie

In the series that produces Netflix the figure of Lupine and those books are background and they are the inspiration and of the protagonist, Assane diop (Omar Sy). Diop is a man willing to clear his father's name, who committed suicide in prison, accused of a robbery that he did not commit by the magnate for whom he worked as a driver.

Diop's difficult life has made him a very clever thief, that, supported by the XNUMXst century technology, wastes ingenuity in their costumes and modus operandi to carry out that revenge Against the man who brought his father down. This gave him the first Lupin novel in his childhood and the young Diop took it as a reference.

Very entertaining, it consists only of 5 chapters that are seen right away. And both the charisma of Omar Sy like the staging in the Paris current and settings of Lupin's novels are fundamental to consider it a good tribute al literary character.

Other titles with Lupine

Lupin III

The assumption Lupin's grandson and his gang of thieves are the protagonists of the manga which Monkey Punch, stage name of Kazuhiko Kato, I believe in 1967 and that it is already an icon in Japanese culture due to the great fondness for the character that exists in Japan. There it has been adapted to various series, video games and movies of anime.

Precisely today opens on the big screen Lupine III: The First, a new 3D animation adventure directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

French crimes: an anthology

This story collection, by authors of the XNUMXth century that reaches the end of the XNUMXth, also includes Leblanc along with Mérimée, Balzac, Dumas, Maupassant, Apollinaire or Gaston Leroux, creator of Phantom of the opera.

Sherlock, Lupine, and Me: The Black Lady Threesome

Lupine also appears in this collection of youth novels, by Pierdomenico Baccalario and Alessandro Gatti, supposedly written by Irene adler. In this, the author recalls the adventures of her youth that she lived with the detective and also with a French boy fond of appropriating what belongs to others.


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  1.   Gustavo Woltmann said

    It's an incredible novel and the series is a fantastic success.
    -Gustavo Woltmann