The Tenant (Le Locataire Chimérique) - Roland Topor BOOK REVIEW

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Thanks for the "Hang in there" at the end, Cliff. Really needed that.

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One of my favourites.I want to thank you, Your review is powerful and detailed, which has encouraged me to re-read The Tenant. I was fortunate enough to have been introduced to Mr Roland Topor by partner who has read most of his books in Polish. By the way Mr Topor was also an incredible surrealist artist and cartoonist

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This is yet another great video. Horror is easily my favorite genre, so I am eager to check this one out. Cheers!

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Phenomenal book and great reference to "Possession." You seem like the ideal drink/literature discussion buddy.

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Yknow i wasn't so sure about this book until you talked about it. You have a great way of talking about things and recommending them. I'll probably check this book out for that and also it just sounds like something i would like. Total paranoia has always been a favorite theme of mine. Good luck and Great work.

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I'm new and i loved your review and since its from years ago idk what are u doin right know but keep the good work

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subbed in the first 5 sec, so thats a first. great review, appreciate the possesion comparison too.

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I’ve been trying to find that book, and was surprised that you had it. Thx for mentioning the fact about it being rare. I thought I was going crazy...

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I'll probably check this book out. I watch your channel for suggestions.

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Great book ! I've read it like a year ago. I am thinking of re-reading it in the original french

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Are you going to take on - review - some of Bataille’s philosophical outings, or maybe Wilhelm Reich’s. Both very interesting.

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I hope he covers Bataille. He is one of my favourites.

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@@chayabat-tzvi1215 He has reviewed “story of the eye”. I find Bataille’s philosophical books as interesting, and great as companion pieces. His book “erotism” is a great one to read before - or after - “story of the eye” since Bataille uses alot of the theories from “erotism” in “story of the eye”.

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Go back to earlier in his channel, Bataille is one of his favorites and iirc he even talks about a film or project he was working on at the time to adapt The Eye.

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@@Roman-xk7fk I have seen the story of the eye review. Could be interesting to see a review of Literature and evil, or erotism(eroticism), or the inner experience.

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Another awesome recommendation

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Outstanding review!

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Is this a rare book because finding a copy seems very difficult. On amazon it’s for pre order. The hard copy is 350 used.

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Annnnnd I just saw the last part of the video about it being rare. Haha.

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Valancourt is putting out a reissue this month. It's listed as a pre-order on amazon but it's shipping now if you order it directly from Valancourt's site.

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@@sterrejalou I just wanted to put it on my wish list for later. So I figured I’d wait.

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@@robrenstrom494 thanks for the info!

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I can't believe you mentioned Possession. One of my all time favorite films. There's too many versions of it. Ya gotta watch the version with the scene where Sam Neill is flipping a light switch off and on while talking on the phone. For some reason that scene got to me. And for some reason, it was cut in some versions of the movie. Gonna have to read The Tenant if the book has the same vibe as that strange, amazing film.

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Please do one of Franz Kafka- The castle

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Thanks for the Tigerlillies. ♥ Excellent review as always. And this novel sounds a lot like Gang Stalking. Welcome to my Tuesday. My upstairs Neighbors, blast James Blunt songs every single day since I moved in, and not sure, but I think they may have installed a basketball court up there as well? As far as the reason for the attacks in the Birds. I always thought that the reason was due to the lovebirds in the cage.(Suggestive) The attacks surrounded Tippi Hedren specifically. Even though it was never spelled out, I think the birds may have been a punishment for romantic indiscretion, which made her leave the town in the first place, and when she came back, they attacked her, because birds are said to remember what they see.

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OF COURSE A REVIEW THAT WILL ADD ANOTHER BOOK TO THE WISHLIST

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This one is on my list

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Ligotti mentioned this book in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Thanks for reminding me to read it!

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Lol that book's been sitting on my shelf, i'm waiting for the moment to be able to time the seemingly inevitable period of depression afterwards to not be too disruptive

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Yes! That's how I discovered it, too bad Ligotti spoiled the ending (but I guess it was necessary for the point he was making)

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G. Bontempi lol yeaaah.

[@Shygrief]

Thank you for telling the personal Topor story. I haven't any idea that this creepy thing of being killed by your neighbors might come up from his real-life story.

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This is the only Topor I've read so far and I quite enjoyed it. Is his other work good?

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Wonderful book, I read this back in my college days and it was so fun and at the same time disturbing. The passage of the protagonist farting while walking on the street because he felt happy had me on the floor. Gotta check out that Fantastic Planet film, Cliff, is like 72 minutes long! Regarding Fernando Arrabal, he is an interesting guy, but maybe his works are not accesible to people who can't read in spanish. The Jodorowsky film debut, Fando and Lis, is based on one of his plays. He also directed a bunch of films, the most well-known is Viva la muerte (Long Live Death), which is on a Fernando Arrabal DVD collection that can be found easily on Amazon.

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Given the Robert Aickman reference - I reccomend a look at M. R. James before the work of Aickman, as his work is founded on Jamesian horror, both the sophistication of the language and the antiquarian, macabre mood

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Hmm this sounds like my kind of horror. The kind I think of as the Uncanny Valley of reality, where it's not quite close enough to being comfortably real, yet not alien/strange enough for you comfortably detach from it. I guess summed up as surreal horror. Will remember to check it out!

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I live in England. I have always been a coffee drinker. Is there anywhere here I can order the coffee he talks about?

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What happened to the Lolita review? It was one of the bests

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I just finished reading the novel and am completely blown away by the ending. Magnificent book, very complex ending if I may say so, far more complex than Polanski's ending.

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Speaking of French literature. Penguin Island by anatole France is a good satire of basically everything.

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Hello. Birds started attacking people because humans took their spaces without respecting nature. A metaphor that also applied to humans themselves in the film. Apparently it is very typical of North American culture. Take what belongs to others without consulting them. Now that I think about it, there is an allusion to what happened to their native peoples. And what is happening today in the Middle East. It was a movie well ahead of its time if we look at it from an ecology point of view. That is where the terror resides, precisely in the unconsciousness of the people. Very good channel and very good review, although I recommend the author to study a little semiotics (hahaha). Best regards.

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No watch Long Live Death instead

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Imho with these ads, reviews are only getting from bad to worse