Saturday, April 28, 2007
Lost Magicians
For many magicians the name L'Homme Masque means nothing. But a read through Camille Gaultier's Magic Without Apparatus will bring you across a number of entries attributed to this mysterious masked man. So, I ask, why has nobody written a book specifically on L'Homme Masque? His material and character is strong enough to justify further investigation into biographical details, effects performed by him, who he really was, etc. Now, that being said, I must acknowledge Genii magazine for doing a cover issue on our Peruvian pal. For those interested the back issue is, July 2000. In this article we discover a remarkable fact about L'Homme Masque, he trained both of his hands in accomplishing every sleight he did! This issue of Genii has the most information I have found but still why has their not been a single volume dedicated to this miraculous conjurer of yesteryear? Well I am certainly not an authority nor am I in any position to take up a project of such magnitude! But I do hope that someone decides to pursue this unusual masked man and share their findings in a book for the magic fraternity. Limited to 500 copies of course!
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Juan Tamariz has advanced the theory that Erdnase was written by the Peruvian magician named "L'Homme Masque" (The Masked Man), who lived in Europe.
"Juan Tamariz tiene la hipotesis que el Erdnase fue escrito por el mago peruano del siglo XIX L'Homme Masque que vivió en Europa y es considerado uno de las más grandes magos de toda la historia, hasta el propio Dai Vernon lo considera entre los tres más grandes. Durante el IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Magia FLASOMA 2009 realizado en Perú, explicó las razones y el fundamento por el cual el autor del Erdnase fue L'Homme Masque. Durante la explicación de esta teoria estuvo presente Gaetan Bloom respaldando esta hipotesis. "
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