En quête de résilience: l’écriture cathartique des anciens combattants Iglesias Pruvost, Virginia Catharsis Resilience Testimony Propaganda Shell shock The abundant literary production of the Great War is motivated by the vital need to recount the atrocities of the conflict. The survivors pay tribute to the companions fallen at the front and try to exorcize extremely painful feelings. These poignant pages take the opposite view of the deceitful déclarations of a depraved propaganda which encourages young people to join the army. The survivors of this massacre often suffered from shell shock, a pathology underestimated at the time: as a result, they were considered cowards and liars. In this article, we ask ourselves the following questions: is it possible to exorcize the apocalyptic memories of the trenches? How to survive having lived through such events? 2025-11-24T12:38:24Z 2025-11-24T12:38:24Z 2015 journal article Iglesias Pruvost, Virginia (2015). En quête de résilience: l’écriture cathartique des anciens combattants. Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature 39(1), 37-52 2450-4580 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/108273 fra http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Board