The Tenant (novel)

The Tenant
AuthorRoland Topor
Original titleLe Locataire chimérique
LanguageFrench
GenreNovel
Publication date
1964
Publication placeFrance

The Tenant (French: Le Locataire chimérique; in English The Chimeric Tenant) is a novel by Roland Topor, originally published in France in 1964. A film based on the book was directed by Roman Polanski in 1976. A surrealist horror novel, The Tenant was described by writer John Fowles as a book in "the Kafka tradition."