by Henri Charrière · Plaza Joven · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476557624
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«Papillon» is the adventure novel by Henri Charrière, published by Plaza Joven in paperback (245 pages, in Spanish).
Henri Charrière recounts his life sentence in French Guiana for a crime he always denied. Nicknamed Papillon after the butterfly tattoo on his chest, he turns escape into his sole obsession: years of failed attempts, punishments, confinements, and the dreaded Devil's Island mark his fight for freedom.
Papillon is an abridged edition from the «Hits» collection, great successes adapted for young readers. The translation is by Domingo Pruna and Vicente Villacampa.
Edition aimed at young readers beginning with adventure and survival stories.
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.
