Intoxicated by the promise of a promotion, Charles Singular for once allows himself a small extravagance: he buys a bowler hat. But there’s a problem: this is no ordinary hat. This one once belonged to the surrealist painter René Magritte, and by donning it Charles has unwittingly stepped into the artist’s off-kilter world. What’s more, he can’t escape―at least, not until he has illuminated the secrets behind Magritte’s work. What follows is a hallucinatory journey through Magritte’s imaginative landscape, a place where facial features mutate, the crescent moon appears in unexpected places, and answers prove frustratingly elusive. In Magritte: This is not a Biography, Vincent Zabus and Thomas Campi have created a panoramic and revealing portrait of the great surrealist, employing a playfulness and wit reminiscent of Magritte himself.

因可能获得晋升，陶醉的Charles Singulier突发奇想，决定买一顶圆顶礼帽。他对买来的礼帽非常满意（如果这不是他想象出来话）。但是有个问题：这顶特别的帽子曾经属于超现实主义画家勒内•马格里特。戴上这顶帽子后，Charles不经意地进入了这位画家无拘无束、不落俗套的世界。选择显而易见：揭开马格里特生活与工作中的秘密——否则就注定要永远戴着这顶帽子。

Charles开始探索马格里特别出心裁的乡村风景画，研究他的构想，了解关于这个自相矛盾的人物的谜团：一个不喜欢画画的画家；一个本能的无政府主义者——住在郊区，过着注重琐事的中产阶级生活；一个孤独、忧郁的灵魂，尽管他的身边永远不乏朋友和合作者。

在《马格里特：这不是传记》一书中，Vincent Zabus 和 Thomas Campi用了一种让人联想到马格里特本人的逗趣和机智，为这位伟大的超现实主义画家描绘了一幅揭露真相的全景画像。