A review by efbeckett
The Tenant by Francis K. Price, Roland Topor

4.0

I guess Roman Polanski never met a book about an apartment dweller and their sinister neighbours that he the need to alter when adapting it. Like Rosemary's Baby this is a virtual blueprint for the film version, with much of the dialogue lifted straight from the pages. Polanski added a detail or two here, removed a few there, but no surprises here if you know the movie. Not the book's fault, it obviously laid the foundation and did the lion's share of the imaginative work. Just hard to assess how effective I'd find it if I had read this first.