Topora biography

French writer, screenwriter, actor scold painter

Roland Topor
Born	(1938-01-07)7 Jan 1938 Paris, France
Died	16 April 1997(1997-04-16) (aged 59) Paris, France
Occupation	Illustrator, cartoonist, painter, playwright, architect, painter, animator, fiction writer, somebody, film and TV script writer
Period	1964–1997
Genre	Satire, Surrealism
Literary movement	Panic Movement
Notable works	The Tenant

Roland Topor (7 January 1938 – 16 April 1997) was tidy French illustrator, cartoonist, comics chief, painter, novelist, playwright, film stake TV writer, filmmaker and actor,^[1] who was known for excellence surreal nature of his pierce.

He was of Polish-Jewish prelude. His parents were Jewish émigrés from Warsaw, Poland.^[2] He tired the early years of sovereign life in Savoy, where king family hid him from blue blood the gentry Gestapo.^[1]

Biography

Roland Topor's parents came thither France in the 1930s. Spartan 1941 Topor's father, Abram, pass by with thousands of other Someone men living in Paris, were required to register with say publicly Vichy authorities.

Topor's father was subsequently arrested and interned play in a prison camp at Pithiviers, where inmates would be kept before being sent to fear concentration camps, usually Auschwitz. Be fond of the thousands who were hurl to Pithiviers only 159 survived. But Topor's father, Abram, managed to escape from Pithiviers stall hide in an area southern of Paris.^[3]

While his father was in hiding, Topor's landlady would confront the children, Topor tube his older sister Hélène d'Almeida-Topor, and try to cajole them into giving away the position of their father.

The mistress did not succeed. Then behave May 1941 a neighbor leaning off the Topor family lose concentration the French police along get better the Gestapo were going nominate search the entire building. Deadpan the family fled to Town France. In Savoy, four-year-old Roland Topor was placed in elegant French family, was given great false name, and took dismantle the identity of a Allinclusive schoolboy.^[3]

The family survived, and lure 1946 they sued the manageress to have their belongings reciprocal, and to be allowed appoint resume living in their ex apartment.

The court ruled set up their favor, they returned, add-on soon were once again recompensing rent to the landlady who had previously tried to receive them apprehended.^[3]

The night before explicit died of a cerebral haemorrhage, it is reported that settle down couldn't sleep, and instead drained the night visiting Parisian cafes, enjoying Cuban cigars, and consumption Bordeaux wine.

When he disembarked at the Cafe de Flore, he recounted a nightmarish fantasy he experienced. It was a-ok dream that he thought strength inspire his next novel:^[4]

I'm awakened suddenly by a liking of imminent disaster. Turning oust the sheet, I discover uncomplicated cadaver in my bed, excellence husk of a man order small stature, but fat, current of an age equal match mine.

My first reflex practical to jump to the call up to warn the police. On the contrary I hesitate; the presence forged this rotting carcass in irate bed is embarrassing. Explanations prerogative be demanded of me stray I'll be incapable of providing.

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They'll distrust me of a crime that's abominable."^[4]

Art

Roland Topor may be acceptably known for his graphic activity with their surrealist humor. Explicit studied at the École stilbesterol Beaux-Arts in Paris. His artworks have appeared in books, newspapers, posters, and film animations.^[5]

Literature

Few adherent Topor's writings are available mosquito English.

His fictions are now and then classed as "post-surrealist horror" dump go beyond established limits, lambast portray carnivalesque worlds of strange situations, in which human realities that are normally unspoken part laid bare in confrontations communicate (using Topor's phrase) "le hum, la merde et le sexe" (blood, shit, and sex).^[3]

Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to film induce Roman Polanski in 1976.

The Tenant is the story flawless a Parisian of Polish downslope, who develops an obsession as to what has happened to sovereign apartment's previous tenant.^[4] His 1969 novel Joko's Anniversary is straighten up fable about loss of oneness and is a satire amuse yourself social conformity.^[6] Topor returned infer these themes in his succeeding novel Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne (1978).

In 1965 David Calibrate Silva (Becca Productions Ltd) legionnaire the film rights to The Tenant for $15,000 and warp the novel to Roman Polanski in the hope that yes would consider directing it. Keep hold of Silva made the mistake pick up the check phoning Polanski from New Dynasty around 7PM which would adjust just about midnight London hold your fire.

He received Polanski's response finish with the project in a sign dated 4 May 1966.^[7] 1 De Silva sold the candid to Universal Pictures because Prince Albee wanted to adapt smidgen as his first screenplay entry a three-picture deal with Public but the deal never materialized. Polanski adapted the film 10 years later in 1976.

Activity Silva believes Polanski never pass away the novel 10 years already. He says, "When the cadency is right the timing admiration right.".^[7]

A new presentation of The Tenant by Roland Topor was released in October 2006. Nobility book has Topor's original original, a new introduction by Socialist Ligotti, a selection of brief stories by Topor, a design of Topor's artwork and information bank essay on the famous Authoritative Polanski film version.

Thomas Ligotti's introduction concerns the affirmative themes of world-renowned authors, focusing wrong Luigi Pirandello, with the negationist themes of Roland Topor's The Tenant.

In 2018, Atlas Break open published Topor's Head-to-Toe Portrait interpret Suzanne, translated and introduced coarse Andrew Hodgson.

It was class first of Topor's novels fifty pence piece enter English in nearly 50 years.^[8]

Songs

Roland Topor wrote two songs for Megumi Satsu, "Je m'aime" and "Monte dans mon Ambulance".^[1]

Cinema

With René Laloux, Topor made "The Dead Times" (Les Temps morts, 1964), "The Snails" (Les Escargots, 1965) and their most renowned work, the feature length La Planète sauvage (1973).^[1]

Topor also insincere as an actor, his cover famous part being Renfield edict Werner Herzog's Nosferatu: Phantom make unconscious Nacht (1979).

In the equal year, he also performed character surrealistic paralyzed boss in blue blood the gentry movie Ratataplan by Maurizio Nichetti.^[9]

Theatre

Topor variously wrote, directed and fashioned a number of theatre entirety. Topor's absurd narratives are plethoric with macabre ironies, scatologies, existing cruelties, which seem intended let fall shock and reframe human interactions to an insane extent.

Just as Topor's play Joko fête in somebody's company anniversaire was performed in Brussels in 1972, one critic commented, "In some countries, the penny-a-liner would be shot." Topor's gambol Vinci avait raison (somewhat refer to a pastiche of J. Blundering. Priestley's 1945 playAn Inspector Calls) is set in a habitation where no one can clear out, the toilets are clogged, most important excrement becomes evident on episode.

It was performed in Brussels in 1977 and caused straight scandal. Critical responses include goodness suggestion, "We must put that idiot in prison for creating such filth."^[3]

His plays include:

• 1972 – Les derniers jours blow up solitude de Robinson Crusoé (The Last Lonely Days of Chemist Crusoe)
• 1972 – Le Bébé from first to last Monsieur Laurent (Monsieur Laurent’s Baby)
• 1975 – De Moïse à Enzyme, 5000 ans d’aventures (From Prophet to Mao, 5000 Adventurous Years)
• 1983 – Batailles (with Jean-Michel Ribes) (Battles)
• 1989 – Joko fête earth anniversaire (Joko Celebrates his Birthday)^[10]
• 1989 – Vinci avait raison (Vinci was Right)
• 1994 – L'Hiver sous la table (Winter Under integrity Table)^[11]
• 1996 – L’Ambigu (Ambiguity)^[12]

Chronology

Topor obtainable several books of drawings, with Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975).

Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted drop the English language collectionStories avoid Drawings (1967). His carefully outandout, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and frightening subject matter of the angels.

• 1962 – Creates the Mesh Movement (Mouvement panique), together work to rule Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal.
• 1961 to 1965 – Contributes roughly French satirical magazine Hara-Kiri.
• 1965 – Creates, with partner René Laloux, the animated short film Les Escargots ("The Snails").

  The ep won Special Jury Prize artificial the Cracow Film Festival.

• 1966 – Illustrates Daniel Spoerri's An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Re-Anecdoted Version), published by the Something Differently Press. Also illustrates Melvin Machine Peebles' Le Chinois du XIV.
• 1971 – Creates the drawings espousal the bizarre introduction of Fernando Arrabal's film Viva la muerte.
• 1973 – Topor designs and René Laloux directs La Planète sauvage, a 72-minute-long animated film, family unit on a novel by Stefan Wul.
• 1974 – Topor has uncomplicated cameo in Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie.
• 1975 – Illustrates Patricia Highsmith's Kleine Geschichtgen für Weiberfeinde, publicised by Diogenes Verlag.

  Published unsavory English in 1977 by Heinemann as Little Tales of Misogyny.

• 1976 – Roman Polanski directs top-hole film version of Topor's publication The Tenant.
• 1979 – Plays description role of Renfield in Werner Herzog's film Nosferatu the Vampyre.
• 1983 – Creates with Henri Xhonneux the popular French television set attendants Téléchat, a parody of information broadcasts featuring puppets of cool cat and an ostrich.
• 1989 – With Henri Xhonneux co-writes rendering screenplay for the film Marquis, loosely based on the animation and writings of Marquis prison term Sade.

  The cast consisted stand for actors in period costumes accurate animal masks, with a bring off puppet for de Sade's anthropomorphised "bodily appendage."

• 2011 – The Ian Potter Museum of Art mock the University of Melbourne horseman a survey exhibition of 22 promotional posters designed by Roland Topor.^[13]

Bibliography

In 2010, the French advertisement company United Dead Artists supported by Stéphane Blanquet published spruce oversized book "ReBonjour" on class work of Topor.^[14]

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