À la toute fin du processus de révision, le comité éditorial d'Algebra & Number Theory a eu l'immense tristesse d'apprendre le décès de Joël Bellaïche. Joël faisait des maths comme il respirait, avec une immense joie. Les mathématiques n'étaient pas pour lui séparées de la vie, elles étaient la vie même -la vie vraiment vivante.At the very end of the reviewing process, the editorial board of Algebra & Number Theory learned with great sadness that Joël Bellaïche had passed away. Joël did math as he breathed, with immense joy. For him mathematics was not disconnected from life; it was life itself, and his way of living it to the fullest.We study the algebraic dynamics of self-correspondences on a curve. A self-correspondence on a (proper and smooth) curve C over an algebraically closed field is the data of another curve D and two nonconstant separable morphisms π 1 and π 2 from. We show that self-correspondences are divided into two classes: those that have only finitely many finite complete sets, and those for which C is a union of finite complete sets. The latter ones are called finitary, and happen only when deg π 1 = deg π 2 and have a trivial dynamics. For a nonfinitary self-correspondence in characteristic zero, we give a sharp bound for the number of étale finite complete sets. MSC2020: 14A10, 37E99.