Roland Topor

The Generous

Roland Topor

Synopsis:
He has already acquired his epithet for eternity and for the history of art: Roland Topor, who died in Paris in 1997 at the age of only 59, is known amongst all the celebrated artists of this century as "The Generous"-Topor, le genereux. He gave his friendship to countless people and he achieved so much and with a lightness second to none: plays, television, films, detective stories, illustrations to more than 100 books, occasionally acting, etc. But above all he was a cartoonist, a master of black humour, extravagant in the way he made use of his is genial, imaginative ideas, with an inimitable stroke which ran the gamut from bittersweet to malicious. It is to him that we owe pictures which we can never forget, pictures which we encounter time and again in our daydreams. "To live in a cartoon by Topor," wrote Federico Fellini, "must be, I think, rather like living in one of my films." A selection of the best pictures from an ceuvre of almost incalculable dimensions has been brought together in this volume. It makes Topor's standing clear, for he leaves the metier of the illustrator far behind him and attains the status of true art as only Alfred Kubin and Saul Steinberg have done. Roland Topor is buried in the cemetery of Montparnasse in Paris, in the company of Chaim Soutine, Emmanuel Bove, E. M. Cioran and Samuel Beckett.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2010, Softcover - 2006, 2000, Hardcover - 1999, 1997, 1997, 1996, 1996, 1994, 1994