by Henri Charrière · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466342148
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«Papillon» is the autobiography of Henri Charrière, published by Debolsillo in paperback (704 pages, in Spanish).
In 1931, Henri Charrière, nicknamed Papillon for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he denies committing. Sent to a penal colony in French Guiana, he thinks only of escaping; after several failed attempts, he is confined to Devil's Island, from which no one has ever fled.
Part of the Best Seller collection from Debolsillo. Translated by Domingo Pruna and Vicente Villacampa. Originally published in 1969 and adapted into a movie with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
Aimed at readers of memoirs and true survival stories who enjoy tales of escape and overcoming adversity.
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.
