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Claude Maisonnat, « La tentation mélancolique dans One Warm Saturday de Dylan Thomas », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.9r59ch
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Dylan Thomas’s 1938 story dramatizes the life of a young would-be writer who aimlessly wanders around the beach of a Welsh sea resort on a bank holiday and encounters a series of mild freaks who draw him into a fantasy world that fulfils his sexual desires, as in a dream from which he awakens at the end. Beyond the obvious biographical aspect of the story the reader is invited to take into consideration the reflexive and meta-fictional dimension of a text whose modalities of writing explore the arcanes of literary creation and reveal the profoundly melancholy source of the creative urge of Dylan Thomas. This is achieved through the medium of fantasy which pervades the second half of the story and whose relation in the guise of the conventional topos of the writer who successfully overcomes his very inability to put pen to paper by using it as the very theme of his story. By so doing he finds a way of turning the symptoms of his paralysis and melancholy into the sinthom of the artist.