Roland Topor Book order

When Trelkovsky, a Parisian in desperate need of a place to live, comes across an affordable apartment, he jumps at the chance to rent it, undaunted by the fact that the previous tenant hurled herself screaming through the window. What happens next is a harrowing descent into paranoia and madness as a series of bizarre events unfolds that leaves Trelkovsky doubting his sanity and fearing for his life. First published in French in 1964 and adapted for Roman Polanski's 1976 film version, Roland Topor's surreal and hallucinatory horror masterpiece The Tenant returns to print at last in this edition, which includes a new introduction by R B. Russell. "As closely coiled, as cold and quiet and deadly as a snake in the bed." - John Collier, author of Fancies and Goodnights "Echoes of Kafka, Poe, and Hitchcock . . . not recommended to any average reader who may be easily shocked." - Bestsellers "Grotesque and harrowing, The Tenant is a powerful fable set in the twilight zone." - The Observer

Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne a disconcerting short novel from an author currently being re-evaluated in France. Perhaps a fable, perhaps a love story of enormous tenderness, or it may be a sequence of ever more unpleasant events that culminate in horror and atrocity. It all depends on your point of view. The central event in this narrative cannot be revealed here, but its sheer implausible reality is utterly convincing and the effect is unforgettable. Some readers may come to wish that that was not the case.

Roland Topor's exuberant collection of vows of love shows that love must not be merely an inert action. He acted diligently -- though ironically -- as a detective in matters of love, finding that the verbal creations of love were hard to provoke, ultimately fleeting, and often even socially unacceptable. Working on this "humanistic" collection throughout his life, he succeeded in localising central themes, formulating categories and tracing a long tradition. The erotic poetic oeuvre, which is indebted to the genius of chance, is accompanied by Roland Topor's drawings.

The Tenant chronicles a harrowing descent into madness as Mr. Trelkovsky is subsumed into Simone Choule, a suicide victim whose presence still saturates Mr. Trelkovsky's new apartment. The novel probes the depths of guilt and obsession.