by Henri Charrière · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401410017
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Papillon is the only work by Henri Charrière, an autobiography that narrates the author's life, plagued by adventures and miraculous escapes. Sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he claims not to have committed, Henri Charrière, known by his nickname Papillon due to the butterfly tattoo he wears on his chest, is sent to the penal colonies of French Guiana and Devil's Island.
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.
