Before us is a unique experience: let us play with words! Here are two wonderful works that simulate a game of reflections, a game of differences: a literary game. Jack London wrote two versions of his masterful story "To Light a Fire" - one in 1902 and the second, in 1908, triple in size. Like a painter who impresses versions of the same landscape, like a composer who rejoices and develops a musical motif in different works - London invites us readers into his literary kitchen, into his editing laboratory, into the inner world of an artist, to witness the metamorphosis of a single classic work in the hands of its creator. To Light a Fire: A story about a character and snow. Man, alone, facing nature. The forests and springs are frozen. The extreme cold attacks the Yukon in the north. Jack London X-rays a human soul, faced with an impossible challenge, on the tightrope between life and death, in pages of hard and brilliant prose, both frightening and wonderful. "In 'Light a Fire' I learned, when I was little, how we humans behave, and how we should listen to nature" Jack Kerouac "Lived forty years and wrote forty books" Ernest Hemingway "Has the most powerful ability to tell about actions and thoughts" Raymond Kerber