by Henri Charrière · Plaza & Janés Editores, Colección La Vida es Río, 1973, Barcelona. Primera edición. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401340246
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«Banco» is the second autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, sequel to Papillon, published by Plaza & Janés in 1973 in paperback.
In this sequel, Charrière recounts his life in Venezuela after years of prison and escapes: miners, gamblers, robbers and revolutionaries, and a constant search for money to return to France and settle scores with those who judged him. He responds to readers' letters and criticizes the justice system, the police and the prison system.
Second installment of the Papillon series; first edition of 1973 in the La Vida es Río collection.
For readers of Papillon and of memoirs of real adventures with tension, escapes and social criticism.
Henri Charrière was a French writer who was convicted of murder in 1931 by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book's material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.
