2300-4681 Le Fantasme du retour : le clonage dans la sciencefiction. Joëlle Wintrebert – Les Olympiades truquées Hope of the reborn past: cloning in science fiction. Joëlle Wintrebert – Les Olympiades truquées Lottiaux Mathieu author Université Polytechnique Hauts de France CALHISTE Correspondence to: Mathieu Lottiaux 29 03 2019 Numéro 17 2019 101 114 Copyright © 2019 2019 <p>The novel of Joëlle Wintrebert talks about a society where cloning is used to build champions. The father of the modern cloning, Bior Malard, is struck by a drama: the death of his woman. But he takes cells and clones her. A child born: Maël. She is a baby, and Bior brings up her. A question appears: who is Maël? His wife? His daughter?<br />This paper deals with some issues like identity, ownership of the body and abilities of the body in a complicated and entangled paradox of the time.  If a character comes from the past, or if a part of their own body comes from the past, can he build the future, or even be a part of it?</p>