A young woman needs rest after the birth of her child, her husband thinks, and rents a summer house so that she can get the necessary rest. The young mother feels comfortable in the beautiful house, only the room with the yellow wallpaper makes her uncomfortable. The intertwined patterns seem more threatening every day and instill fear in her. What is hidden behind the wallpaper? Eerie and oppressive, this story reads in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. A key text of American literature in a new translation by Christian Detoux.