《已故的帕斯卡尔》写乡村图书馆管理员马蒂亚·帕斯卡尔两次抛弃原先的身份，寻求另一个"自我"的经历。第一次他因同妻子争吵，愤然出走，人们认定他失足溺死,他被迫改名梅司，开始戴上"假面"生活。但由于失去真实的"自我"，他在生活中处处感到被现实抛弃的痛苦，于是他制造了梅伊斯投河身亡的假象再度出逃，企图恢复真实的"自我"──帕斯卡尔的生活，但却再也无法回到原先的生活中去。（The Late Matthew Pascal narrates country librarian Marty Pascal's experience of seeking self by abandoning his previous identity for twice. For the first time, he rushed out because of quarreling with his wife. People believed that he had died, so he had changed his name into Metz, and lived with a false mask. He suffered greatly by feeling abandoned in the reality because of losing the true "self", so he created the false appearance of Metz killing by water and ran again. He tried to restore Pascal's real "self", but he could not go back to the previous life.）