Le parricide imaginaire

One of the one thousand four hundred copies on Marais vellum after 30 copies on Imperial Japan paper, and 60 copies on Holland paper.

"Long after the murder, Juste began to talk to himself: "Did I want to kill? Who did I kill? Who did I want to kill?" he asked himself and answered himself: "Perhaps I only wanted to disperse a nightmare, by making noise? [...] It is the face I loved most, the only face of my mother that I thought I had reached. I could no longer see my mother Agnès, thus deformed by evil and misfortune, without killing her or dying, and as I knew that I would have done her more harm by killing myself than by killing her, by not killing myself and by killing her [...], was it only her that I was thinking of?"

Marcel Jouhandeau