by Henri Charrière · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401490842
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«Papillon» is the autobiography of Henri Charrière, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (592 pages, in Spanish).
It recounts the life of Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon for a butterfly tattoo on his chest, after being convicted in Paris in 1931 for a murder he always denied. Imprisoned in the penal colony of French Guiana, he organizes numerous escapes and ends up on Devil's Island, from which no one is said to have escaped. His determination to regain freedom takes him through jungles, seas and prisons.
First installment of the «Papillon» series; edition published on May 20, 1994.
For readers of memoirs and adventure classics, with an interest in stories of survival and escape.
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.
