The novel by the brilliant French writer Raymond Roussel (1877–1933), whom Andre Breton called “the greatest magnetizer of our time,” “Locus Solus” is published in Russian for the first time. “Locus Solus” is a long, endless walk that you can perceive it as a kind of path to initiation. The brilliant scientist - the complete image of a writer, an artist or, according to Roussel, a genius - reveals to us at seven stops the seven breathtaking wonders that he conceived, created and placed in his park. Among these stunning finds is a flying ramming “woman”, making a mosaic of multi-colored... teeth, a giant “diamond” in which a dancer with musical hair floats, revived dead people acting out the most significant episodes of their lives... But above all, “Locus Solus” is an intellectual experiment, as calculated as it is unpredictable.