by Henri Charrière · FISCHER Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596212453
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«Papillon» is the autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, published by Fischer Taschenbuch in paperback (592 pages, in German).
The book recounts the life of Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon after a butterfly tattoo, who, convicted of a murder he always denied, is sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Throughout the work, he makes several escape attempts and faces harsh conditions of confinement in his quest to regain freedom.
First installment of the Papillon series. Originally published in 1969, this German edition is volume 21245 of the Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe collection.
For readers of adventure memoirs, survival stories and twentieth-century literary classics.
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.
