by Henri Charrière · PLAZA & JANES S.A · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401340154
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«Papillon» is the autobiography of Henri Charrière, published by Plaza & Janés in 1974 in hardcover (605 pages, in Spanish).
Henri Charrière recounts in the first person his conviction for murder in France and his deportation to a penal colony in French Guiana. The book follows his years of imprisonment, his escapes and failures, and the struggle to survive in a brutal prison system, in a tale of resistance and the search for freedom.
Originally published in 1969, it is the first installment of the «Papillon» series. This edition includes the translation by Domingo Pruna and Vicente Villacampa.
A read for those interested in memoirs, adventure classics, and stories of survival and freedom.
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.
