About

Roland Topor (1938-1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Oland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves. He later novel Joko’s Anniversary (1969), another fable about loss of identity, is a vicious satire on social conformity.

Roland Topor (1938-1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. The Tenant is the story of a Parisian of Polish descent, a chilling exploration of alienation and identity, asking disturbing questions about how we define ourselves.

Originally published in France in 1964, The Tenant chronicles a harrowing, fascinating descent into madness as the pathologically alienated Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, an enigmatic suicide whose baleful presence still saturates his new apartment Much more than a tale of possession, the novel probes disturbing depths of guilt, paranoia, and sexual obsession with an unsparing, almost clinical detachment his densely textured work was brilliantly filmed by Roman Polanski in 1976.

He hardcover edition is limited to just 300 copies and is signed by Thomas Ligotti Bound in cloth with a dustjacket with Topor artwork in color on the front and back.

Edition Details

• Limited to 300 copies, each signed by Thomas Ligotti.
• Introduction by Thomas Ligotti.
• Four bonus short stories by Topor.
• A large selection of Roland Topor artwork.
• Head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction.

External Links

• The Tenant. Centipede Press page for The Tenant
• Roland Topor (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Roland Topor