Les Mains d'Orlac

by Maurice Renard · first published 1920

Les Mains d'Orlac (English: The Hands of Orlac) is a French science fiction novel written by Maurice Renard. The plot involves a celebrated pianist who loses his hands in a track crash and has them surgically replaced with those of an executed murderer. Soon, the transplanted hands assume the personality of its psychopathic donor. Renard's novel was one of his many science fiction stories he wrote in the early 20th century and was initially published in 58 episodes in L'Intransigeant from May 15, to July 12, 1920.

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Genre:

Crime

Original language:

French

Reader rating:

★ 2.0 / 5 (1 on Open Library)

Year page:

1920