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This article grapples with the question of the corpse through two particular literary texts. Rather than an elucidation of the physiological principle of the human body by means of dissection, the play  Mactatio Abel , written in England in the 15th century, stages the difficulty of the relation to the corpse, via an amplification of the biblical narrative of Abel’s murder by Caïn. As for Chaucer’s work,  The Book of the Duchess , it rewrites Ovid’s and Machaut’s texts featuring the figure of Morpheus in a way that distinguishes between an imitation of the living and its simulacrum in the sense Wolfgang Iser gives this concept. Chaucer’s Morpheus, instead of promoting veri - similitude, forbids it. Indeed, h e animates a corpse from within instead of simulating an apparition of the deceased. The simulacrum, rather than a mimetic copy of the real, b locks all representational illusion, in order to formulate absence. The readability of the corpse in both works is relational. Both literary texts express the corpse as being always already grounded in a relational and narratorial space.

La présence du cadavre et son efficacité sémiotique: Morphée chez Geoffrey Chaucer et Caïn dans Mactatio Abel