The Invention Of Morel

So, I found the end portion of this book to be quite captivating. It is very interesting that Morel really did create an invention and also re-invented himself to live on for eternity. This is nothing that I expected, I thought that the people on the island were ghosts or that the writer was a ghost or just crazy. But I did enjoy that unsuspected twist!
The overall plot was like a twisted love story, the writer was madly in love with Faustine, a recording, and in the end he died to have his memory live on with her. Their was also many things that were in the way of the writers posibility of having a happily ever after with Faustine, the projections of the island people, Faustine not being real, Morel killing everyone off to "preserve" them for eternity.
It was a sad love story in a way because the hopless writer was never going to be with Faustine and he kept on battling his feelings for her, in the book after he realizes that Faustine was just a projection he says that he "was able to view Faustine dispassionately, as a simple object" but in the next sentence he says he spent twenty days with her. A few paragraphs down he also says that it "touches me to have her so close to me" while he is laying on the mat beside her bed. The writer goes through an emotional rollercoaster when he realizes the truth about the island people.
Even though the ending was sad, it was also hopeful in a way, the writer was able to be with Faustine's spirit, her "immortal" projection. They were almost together, as together as they would have ever been and that brought the writer a sense of serenity and peace. The death was very horribe but he did it for the person, or projection, that he loved. I cant help but wonder if things would have turned out the same if the writer and Fausine really did meet, would he have still felt the same? Would she have felt the same? Maybe he wouldn't have died after all...