Amica America, une méditation sur Éros et Thanatos

By way of Giraudoux’s Amica America, the article shows how the writer’s 1917 diplomatic mission doubled as a poetic mission, where he aimed to twin France with America, and to compensate for the destructive effects of Thanatos through this union and through the creation that springs from the vital impulse of Eros. Thus the writer manages to channel the emotional charge engendered by the war, and to conserve the hope “of seeing two great countries alter their aims and their function through simple benevolence.”