
JACK LONDON
PRÉFACE DES TRADUCTEURS
CHAPITRE PREMIER DARRELL STANDING SE PRÉSENTE
CHAPITRE II UNE HISTOIRE DE DYNAMITE
CHAPITRE III L’INTERROGATOIRE
CHAPITRE IV « ASSIEDS-TOI, STANDING! »
CHAPITRE V DES TAPOTEMENTS DANS LA NUIT
CHAPITRE VI « SAMARIE! »
CHAPITRE VII LA CAMISOLE DE FORCE
CHAPITRE VIII LA DYNAMITE OU LA MORT
In the bleak corridors of a 1920s California prison, a once‑respectable agronomy professor turned condemned assassin endures the grind of San Quentin's regime. Accused of smuggling dynamite and sentenced to an iron‑bound solitary cell, he meets an ever‑tightening barrage of punishments, culminating in a suffocating camisole of force. Yet the relentless cruelty triggers an unexpected shift: his battered body falls into a cataleptic trance while his mind begins to slip free, probing the edges of consciousness.
From that liminal space the convict’s spirit starts to sweep across epochs, recalling lives that may have spanned from ancient battlefields to forgotten natural realms, echoing the old doctrine of soul‑migration. The narrative follows this wandering intellect as it searches for meaning beyond the stone walls, offering a blend of stark prison realism and speculative philosophy. Listeners are invited to contemplate how a single soul can persist, rebel, and roam the cosmos even when its flesh remains imprisoned.
Language
fr
Duration
~8 hours (502K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2021-05-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1876–1916
Adventure, hardship, and restless curiosity run through these stories from one of America’s most widely read early twentieth-century writers. Best known for The Call of the Wild and White Fang, he turned a short, intense life into fiction that still feels vivid and direct.
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