by Henri Charrière · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447307647
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«Papillon I» is the first part of Henri Charrière's autobiography, published by RBA in paperback (502 pages, in Spanish).
In this first installment, Henri Charrière recounts his conviction for a murder he always denied and the time he spent in the prisons of French Guiana. The text covers his repeated escape attempts and the harsh conditions of the colonial penal colony, with survival, friendship and freedom as guiding threads.
First part of Papillon, included in the Grandes Éxitos collection from RBA Editores; 1995 edition.
Aimed at readers of literary classics and real-life accounts of overcoming adversity and the 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.
