A scene dreamed of by cartoonist Grandville during a nightmare that just preceded his death....

A scene dreamed of by cartoonist Grandville during a nightmare that just preceded his death. Georges Bataille wrote about this engraving: the criminal dreams that he has just hit a man in a dark wood. Human blood was spread and, following an expression that presents a fierce image in mind, it sweated an oak. In fact, it is not a man but a tree trunk.,. bloody.,. that wakes and struggles., under the deadly weapon. The victim's hands are raised begging but in vain. Blood is still running. It is then that the enormous eye opens in a dark sky chasing the criminal through space, to the bottom of the seas where he devours him after taking the shape of a fish. March 1847