MOREL'S INVENTION NOVEL
Someone told me that the entire idea for Mairenbad comes from the novel
"Morel's Invention" a novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. In the book, a man isolated in an island, met a woman and many other people, but no one seems to look at him. He falls in love with the woman, and later, discovered a mechanism invented by Morel, which projected images of all those people, as holograms of those persons, recorded on discs by the same Morel, in order to live forever.
The novel was written in 1940, many years before of the laser-discs.