His father had been an alcoholic and had committed suicide before his birth. His mother had been a prostitute who took to drink and died of delirium tremens. His younger sister drowned herself; his elder one threw herself under a train; his brother jumped from the railway viaduct at Vyšehrad; his grandfather murdered his wife, poured paraffin on himself and set himself on fire; his other grandmother used to gad about with the gipsies and poisoned herself in prison with matches; one cousin was condemned several times for arson and cut his jugular vein with a glass splinter in the Carthusian monastery prison;
Aitonak bere emaztia hil zuela eta, petroliotan blai, su eman ziola bere buruari. Beste amona ijitoekin zebilela arlote, eta kartzelan pospoloekin pozoitu zela. Lehengusu bat batzuetan epaitu zutela suteak egiteagatik eta kartzelan lepoko zainak ebaki zituela kristal puska batekin.