To live through misfortunes in advance is to endure them twice.
La Nuit des temps Title:
La Nuit des temps
The Ice People

Author: René Barjavel

Year: 1968

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Scientists discovered traces of a vanished civilisation in Antarctica. They unearthed a capsule containing a man and a woman in a state of hibernation. They managed to revive the woman and uncover her story using a telepathic device…

By general consensus, this is Barjavel’s best work. The story didn’t captivate me.