Roussel, Raymond,  1877-1933 <br/><br/>
Locus Solus 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_Solus  Release date is 2006-08-31 
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<br/><br/> "Locus Solus" by Raymond Roussel is a novel published in 1914. A scientist named Martial Canterel invites colleagues to tour his estate, where he displays increasingly bizarre inventions. These include an aerial pile driver creating tooth mosaics, a water-filled glass diamond, and most remarkably, dead people revived with "resurrectine" who endlessly reenact their life's most crucial moments. The novel unfolds through detailed expositions followed by intricate explanations, creating a strange journey through Canterel's extraordinary world of mechanical wonders and macabre spectacles. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Science fiction Scientists -- Fiction Inventions -- Fiction French fiction -- 20th century 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ