This is essentially the portrait of an old lady all alone, as there are so many ... It turns out that this old lady has a past, and a very full life when intéreure Reality and His reality (its delusions?) is between-shock. The style of narration through the transcript of his journ & the intimate letters she wrote to her son we make it real; it annoys us with his mania for old teachers, and it comes times to complain neighbors ... Can we feel it suffer for its smaller neighbor in particular ... The first two thirds of the book consists of the portrait, the last third relates (a little quickly for my taste) the police investigation. A book I struggled to ask though ...