TY - JOUR TI - Fiction haunted by the past/the past haunted by fiction: the spectres of the Great War in Douze lettres d’amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau AU - Sadkowski, Piotr TI - Fiction haunted by the past/the past haunted by fiction: the spectres of the Great War in Douze lettres d’amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau AB - The return of the theme of the Great War in literature imposes on the contemporary reader a double heritage: that of grief and guilt. The postmemory rediscovery of loss is therefore accompanied by a prise de conscience of forgetting or indifference, in family memory and History, in relatoon to war’s anonymous victims. In the fiction compared in this paper, Douze lettres au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant and Visites aux vivants by Cathie Barreau, loss is thematized by deconstructing the specter of the Great War. The two authors attempt to libertate the specters from the aura of anxiety, on the one hand in the hope of taming the past, on the other to give voice, as well individual integrity, to the forgotten subjects of the Great War. VL - 2019 IS - Numéro 18 PY - 2019 SN - 2300-4681 C1 - 2353-8953 SP - 61 EP - 73 DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.19.013.10698 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/la-fiction-hantee-par-le-passe-le-passe-hante-par-la-fiction-les-spectres-de-la-grande-guerre-dans-douze-lettres-damour-au-soldat-inconnu-dolivier-bar-barant-et-visites-aux-vivants-de-cathie-barreau KW - trauma ; Grande Guerre KW - perte KW - spectralité KW - trauma KW - Great War KW - loss KW - spectrality