{"id":13041,"title":"Le locataire chimérique","dimensions":"19.2 x 14.1 cm, 185 p., language : French, publisher : Éditions Buchet/Chastel, Paris","date_begin":"1964-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/152","stream_count_app":7,"permalink":"le-locataire-chimerique","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/029/573/large/Untitled038.jpg?1435647509","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--[if gte mso 9]\u003e\u003cxml\u003e\r\n \u003co:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n  \u003co:Version\u003e15.00\u003c/o:Version\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:DocumentProperties\u003e\r\n \u003co:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n  \u003co:TargetScreenSize\u003e800x600\u003c/o:TargetScreenSize\u003e\r\n \u003c/o:OfficeDocumentSettings\u003e\r\n\u003c/xml\u003e\u003c![endif]--\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoland Topor\u0026#39;s \u003cem\u003eLe locataire chim\u0026eacute;rique\u003c/em\u003e is a mundane and horrific example of the most depressive strains of horror. As the novel opens, Trelkovsky learns of an apartment just vacated by a suicide. Nominally in order to pay his respects, and really to ascertain if she\u0026#39;ll die so he can move in, he visits her in the hospital. Semi-conscious at best, the former tenant opens one eye to see a friend and Trelkovsky, and she responds with an \u0026quot;unbreakable scream\u0026quot;. At the time, neither Trelkovsky nor the reader can understand her terror. By the end of the book, both will know all too well, for Topor\u0026#39;s world is one where all of humanity is at once utterly absurd and grotesquely terrifying, and there is no escape.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Nathaniel Katz\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLe locataire chim\u0026eacute;rique\u003c/em\u003e was adapted to film by Roman Polanski in 1976 with the title \u003cem\u003eThe Tenant\u003c/em\u003e. It is the last film in Polanski\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;Apartment Trilogy\u0026rdquo;, following \u003cem\u003eRepulsion\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRosemary\u0026rsquo;s Baby\u003c/em\u003e and it was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2697,"name":"Roland Topor","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}