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A certain fondness

Anthology

I had dinner with an employee, well a member of the Board of Directors of Diogenes Verlag that is publishing my books in German.
The member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Kampa is his name, and I share a fondness for certain things, one of which is: Roland Topor.
Together with the founder of Diogenes, Daniel Keel, Mr. Kampa has edited an anthology with texts by Topor.
When I received an important award for my novel The Asylum Seeker in 2004 I used part of the prize money to subsidize a book with stories and drawings by Roland Topor.
Finally the book will be published this fall in the Netherlands.


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Arnon, could you please give me the name of the book you subsidized? Thank you in advance.
said anna schumlanski 06/09/2007 21:09 • x
Topor
Anna,
See:
http://www.maisondescartes.com/site/activites-culturelles/hommage-a-roland-topor.html
said Johannes van der Sluis 06/09/2007 21:42 • x
Anna
You cannot miss it, it is called stories and drawings by Topor if I'm not mistaken.
said Arnon Grunberg 06/09/2007 21:45 • x
Looking forward very much to the Roland Topor book.
said M. J. 07/09/2007 01:39 • x
In the early seventies we learned from Topor via the cult magazine Charlie Hebdo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo
Great to know you are found of him too.
said Jan Thys 07/09/2007 13:53 • x
Jan Thys
Do you know any Topor collectors?
said Arnon Grunberg 07/09/2007 19:44 • x
@Arnon
It is a long time ago. I am only acquainted to the last girlfriend – she a painter too- of the once famous but deceased Belgian painter Dees De Bruyne (from Ghent, but he lived in Paris too). I know he was an admirer of Topor, but I am afraid she has only a small collection of Dees.
said Jan Thys 07/09/2007 20:02 • x
Klossowski
Jan Thys,
You might also want to check out the drawings of writer/translator/illustrator Pierre Klossowski (brother of Balthus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Klossowski
said Johannes van der Sluis 07/09/2007 21:16 • x
@Johannes
Thank you. I knew Bathus, not his brother. So much to see, so much to read…
(Dees De Bruyne painted in a similar style. http://www.petitebatte.be/schilder.htm)
said Jan Thys 08/09/2007 12:28 • x
balthus
@Jan Thys
Of course you know about the Balthus-exhibition in museum Ludwig
in Köln at the moment?
said Vera M. 09/09/2007 21:47 • x
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