[La invención de Morel]
Year:
1940
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
NYRB Classics
Year of publication:
2003
Pages:
103
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
A fugitive hides on a deserted island and discovers that there are tourists who don’t seem to notice him. Over time, he realizes that the tourists are not real, but projections from a machine created by a scientist named Morel, which captures people’s souls to make them relive forever. The protagonist falls in love with Faustine, one of these projections.
The work addresses themes such as obsession, loneliness, and the relationship between reality and its reproduction through technology.