James Joyce et Anatole France : l'amour est plus fort que la mort

Abstract

Joyce wrote that Anatole France had suggested to him the last story of Dubliners, "The Dead". His brother Stanislaus described "The Dead" as a ghost story. The theme of the dead lover who "comes back" to the beloved one seems to have haunted France and is developed in three of the tales in L'Etui de Nacre : « La Messe des ombres », "Leslie Wood" and « L'Aube », where, as in Joyce's story, love proves stronger than death.