The apparent disorder on which Joyce built Ulysses is the paradoxal result of a strong organisation principle, on the verge of dissolution. Joyce's poetics are defined by the drifts of his writing that are mastered up to the point of loosing control…

The comparative study of two figures — Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), who reigned in Wallachia from 1456 to 1462, and Dracula, hero of the eponymous 1897 novel — allows to define the nature of the relation between myth and history. It also allows to explain the genesis of a literary myth…