This is the story of a crime: the murder of reality. And the extermination of an illusion: the vital illusion, the radical illusion of the world. If the crime were perfect, this book should also be perfect, since it wants to be the reconstitution of the crime. Unfortunately, crime is never perfect. On the other hand, in this black book of the disappearance of the real, the motives and authors have not been discovered, and the corpse of the real has never been found. As for the idea that presides the book, it has never been discovered either. It was the weapon of crime. While crime is never perfect, perfection, for its part, is always criminal, as its name suggests. In perfect crime, perfection itself is crime, just as in the transparency of evil, transparency itself is evil. But perfection is always punished and its punishment is reproduction. If the consequences of the crime are perpetual, there is neither killer nor victim. If either of them were present, one day or another the secret would be known, and the criminal process would be solved. The secret, after all, is that the two are confused: "Ultimately, the murderer and the victim are one person. We can only conceive the unity of the human race if we can conceive, in all its horror, the truth of this essential equivalence "(Eric Gans). Ultimately, the object and the subject are the same. We can not understand the essence of the world if we can not understand, in all its irony, the truth of this radical equivalence. "Baudrillard stands out in the art of disarming. He practices a radical thought that is dissociated from the real and, with undisturbed jubilation, undermines the foundations of our beliefs ... A conjurer of a virtuosity without any failure. And an irresistible seduction "(Roland Jaccard, Le Monde). "With his new book, our only radical-fatal thinker deciphers the enigma of the end of the century and gives us a masterpiece of black humor. His book is beautiful, and beautiful as the meeting of Nietzche, Arthur Clarke and Borges »(Jérôme Bindé, Le Nouvel Observateur).