Do the returning Dead relate to the world in a way resembling this from Adorno:
‘To a child returning from holiday, home seems new, fresh, festive. Yet nothing has changed there since he left. Only because duty has now been forgotten, of which each piece of furniture, window, lamp, was otherwise a reminder, is the house given back its Sabbath peace, and for minutes one is at home in a never returning world of rooms, nooks and corridors in a way that makes the rest of life there a lie. No differently will the world one day appear, almost unchanged, in its constant feast-day light, when it stands no longer under the law of labour, and when for homecomers duty has the lightness of holiday play.”
Or this from Berger writing about the films of Tarkovsky:
“The surprise is that of rediscovering the world after an absence elsewhere. .[..] With [Tarkovsky] we come back to the world with the love and caring of ghosts who have left it.”