by Henri Charrière · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475307022
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Papillon is the only autobiographical work by Henri Charrière, where he recounts his life full of adventures, miraculous escapes, abuses, and losses. The book offers a perspective on police brutality and the inefficiency of an outdated legal system. Ultimately, it is the story of 30 years in the life of a special man, although the veracity of some facts has been questioned on numerous occasions.
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.
