2300-4681 La fiction hantée par le passé/le passé hanté par la fiction : les spectres de la Grande Guerre dans Douze lettres d’amour au soldat inconnu d’Olivier Bar barant et Visites aux vivants de Cathie Barreau 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 Sadkowski Piotr author Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu Correspondence to: Piotr Sadkowski 28 06 2019 Numéro 18 2019 61 73 Copyright © 2019 2019 <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: justify;">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.</span></p>