by Henri Charrière · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422613244
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«Papillon» is an adventure novel by Henri Charrière, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (548 pages, in Spanish).
It tells the story of a man sentenced to prison in French Guiana for a crime he denies having committed. After being sent to a penal colony, he embarks on a long struggle to escape and survive, facing brutal conditions and the hope of regaining his freedom.
Translation from French by Domingo Pruna and Vicente Villacampa. Edition published in 1982.
A read for lovers of adventure novels and stories of struggle for 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.
