The Tenant
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. With four short stories and a selection of Roland Topor's...
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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. With four short stories and a selection of Roland Topor's artwork. Each copy is signed by Thomas Ligotti.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781933618074 (1933618078)
Publish date: May 1st 2010
Publisher: Centipede Press
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Health,
Horror,
France,
French Literature,
Short Stories,
Mental Health,
Weird Fiction
bookshelves: film-only, summer-2011, translation, france, published-1964, noir, philosophy, mental-health Recommended for: moxysox Read from August 28 to 29, 2011 ** spoiler alert ** The Tenant (French: Le Locataire chimérique) is a novel by Roland Topor, a French illustrator, painter, writer and...
A deeply delicious descent into paranoia and insanity, with some hauntingly dark imagery along the way. Highly recommended.
The Tenant or The Chimerical Lodger is still vivid in my mind - the book made quite a powerful impression on me. Although the beginning was rather slow, with depictions of mundane activities which seemed redundant, the strange happenings were not long overdue and from that moment on I couldn't put t...
Trelkovsky moves into an apartment. The former tenant committed suicide Just days before. Now new tenant Trelkovsky is living a nightmare of his own and Simone the former tenant. A trip you won't forget of paranoia, disturbing events. The unexpected ending alone is a brain scratcher. Roman Polanski ...
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