New Bodies for Old

A small Parisian soirée turns into something far stranger than a simple dinner party. When the lights flicker out, eight skeptical friends gather around a creaking Ouija‑like table, expecting only jokes and a touch of the occult. Yet the wooden surface begins to answer their questions in a crackling code, delivering uncanny predictions about who will occupy the house in the years to come—and even naming a mysterious future author, Nicolas Vermont, who will “begin to write his adventures” right then and there.

The novel rolls out this odd séance as a springboard for a playful yet thoughtful exploration of fate, imagination, and the thin line between scientific curiosity and superstition. As the characters wrestle with the table’s cryptic messages, the narrative invites listeners to consider how new ideas can inhabit old bodies, and what it means to chase truth amid the flamboyant excesses of early twentieth‑century intellectual circles.