Avatar. Goutier T.

Theophile Gauthier is the brightest figure of the 19th century fiction and the ancestor of the French horror. The rebel, who looked at one of the first European writers outside the everyday limits, losing peace forever. What if a young man is about to die from a love for a married lady? The old doctor knows the recipe for salvation: with the help of secret knowledge, he will transfer the soul and mind of the young man to the body of the husband of the beautiful countess. But will the Indian gods will have to turn to for help too high?