Abstract
R. ROUSSEL'S LOCUS SOLUS, THE IDEOLOGICAL WEIGHT OF THE DENIAL OF REALITY W.R. investigates several lines of research into the narrative an stylistic processes of Locus Solus. Starting from the exhaustive study of the text, W.R. attempts first of all in his search for signs of the "refus du réel" (denial of reality) ideology to deciphre the organisation of the Rousselien narrative, its particular processes of construction and its method of lexical selection. This conceptual approach is followed by a descriptive part in which W.R., by comparing Locus Solus to other texts, highlights the extreme singularity of this text bbth in the variety of forms used and in the morphological proximity. The apparent normality of the narrative surface is challenged by the quantitative and qualitative characteristics which have been discovered.