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    <namePart>Roussel, Raymond</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1877-1933</namePart>
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  <abstract>"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.)</abstract>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_Solus</note>
  <note>Release date is 2006-08-31</note>
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Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by the
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at
http://gallica.bnf.fr)</note>
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    <topic>Scientists -- Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>Inventions -- Fiction</topic>
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    <topic>French fiction -- 20th century</topic>
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