by Henri Charriere · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401350474
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«Papillón» is the autobiographical account by Henri Charrière, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback, in Spanish.
Henri Charrière recounts in the first person a life marked by imprisonment in Caribbean penitentiaries, escape attempts, and losses. The narrative exposes police brutality and the shortcomings of the judicial system of the era, spanning thirty years in the life of a man who claims to have been convicted of a crime he did not commit. The veracity of this story has been questioned.
The Spanish edition was published in 1973 and includes an introduction by Jean-Pierre Castelnau.
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.
