by Henri Charrière · Plaza & Janés, Editores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401350900
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«Banco» is the autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (411 pages, in Spanish).
A sequel to Papillon, it recounts Henri Charrière's years of freedom, when he was still seeking the money to return to France and confront those who judged him for a murder he always denied. The author wrote this work after receiving thousands of letters from readers, and it attacks the justice system, the police, and the prison system.
Published in 1973, with translation by Ramón Izabal and cover by Álvaro; the edition measures 13x19 cm.
For those who enjoyed Papillon and want to discover the next stage of Henri Charrière's fictionalized memoirs.
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.
