Le vagabond des étoiles

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Le vagabond des étoiles

by Jack London

FR·~8 hours·31 chapters

Chapters

31 total
1

JACK LONDON

0:50
2

PRÉFACE DES TRADUCTEURS

9:25
3

CHAPITRE PREMIER DARRELL STANDING SE PRÉSENTE

13:17
4

CHAPITRE II UNE HISTOIRE DE DYNAMITE

20:29
5

CHAPITRE III L’INTERROGATOIRE

13:44
6

CHAPITRE IV « ASSIEDS-TOI, STANDING! »

16:04
7

CHAPITRE V DES TAPOTEMENTS DANS LA NUIT

19:13
8

CHAPITRE VI « SAMARIE! »

22:11
9

CHAPITRE VII LA CAMISOLE DE FORCE

20:25
10

CHAPITRE VIII LA DYNAMITE OU LA MORT

11:10

Description

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.

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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.

About the author

Jack London

Jack London

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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