by Henri Charrière · CIRCULO DE LECTORES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422603276
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«Papillon» is the autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (552 pages, in Spanish).
Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon, recounts in autobiographical form his conviction for a murder he always denied and his deportation to the penal colonies of French Guiana. The narrative follows his escape attempts, the punishments, the betrayals and the extreme hardships (solitude, jungle and sea), with freedom as a constant goal.
First installment of the Papillon series; work originally published in 1969.
Suitable for readers of memoirs, biographies and tales of adventure and survival.
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.
