A descendant of a New Orleans planter named Lancelot commits a sinister and mysterious murder. And although the motive seems clear - after all, the main character's wife and her lover fell victim - we will not understand what happened until we listen to the extravagantly inspired confession of the killer.

The work of Walker Percy, the great American writer whom you admired has not yet been read or even heard of, is being published for the first time in Russian. "Lancelot", which caused fierce controversy among Western critics, is a philosophical novel in the package of a "black detective".