Spannende schelmenroman, lang geleden gelezen. Het speelt in Frans Guyana en het gaat over een spectaculaire ontsnapping uit een streng beveiligde gevangenis.Hij weet na veel avonturen de weg naar de vrijheid te vinden.

"يا عزيزي بابيون! إنك لتشقى بهذا النضال، وأغبطك على ما تحمله من إيمان بالحصول على الحرية يوماً ما. فمنذ عام وانت لا تكف عن الهروب، ولم تعدل عنه مرة واحدة، فما أن تهزم في هروب حتى تبدأ بتحضير هروب آخر."

هنري شاريير او "بابيون" كالفراشة في سعيه للحصول على الحرية والنجاة من طريق العفن..!!
شدتني لابعد حد.. كل صفحة مليئة بالاحداث المستحيلة.. ^^

صراحة ماتوقعت ان هالرواية حقيقية.. ˘-˘

Würde ich heute wahrscheinlich nicht mehr lesen aber damals war es sehr prägend im Genre Gefängnisroman und sehr spannend.

Sentenced to life imprisonment in a penal colony in French Guiana for a murder he always claimed he didn't commit, Henri Charrière's ambition to regain his freedom led him to escape from the various locations he was imprisoned him no fewer than nine times in the thirteen years since being transported from his homeland, with a succesion of incredible adventures along the way before he finally got away for good. While the veracity of all his claims has come into doubt in the decades since the book's publication and some of his more outlandish feats and experiences are indeed hard to credit, it certainly is an amazing story no matter how much of it is nothing but the truth. Some of the language used, especially regarding race and sexuality and towards women, is rather dated, to put it mildly, but this was nevertheless a worthwhile read.

أقوى ما يكون الإنسان حينما يبحث عن حريته ليُرمم كرامته المتبعثرة من طغيان القساة
وأشرف ما يسعى إليه هو ذلك
وأنجع الأسلحة في مبتغاه الإرادة، الصبر، الآمل

الكاتب الفرنسي هنري شاريير (شارلي هونام) (1906 - 1973)، الملقب بابيلون ("الفراشة"). أدانته المحاكم الفرنسية في جريمة قتل ظلمًا وحُكم عليه بالسجن مدى الحياة، فكتب مذكرات من سجنه والهروب من المستعمرة الجزائية الشهيرة في جزيرة غيانا الفرنسية بجنوب أمريكا، والتي يُطلق عليها جزيرة الشيطان.

هذه الرواية ”شبه سيرة ذاتية“ تتحدث عن أعظم قصة هروب حدثت في تاريخ البشرية، ومن أفظع السجون وأعتاها قسوة وحراسة.
من سجن التوقيف وبعد الحكم، سيطر على عقل هنري عفريت الانتقام، ممن ومتى وكيف؟!
قرار الهروب وأمله بذلك كان غذاء عقله وروحه وسلوانه.
اجتهد وكرّر المحاولات وتحمّل في سبيل ذلك، حتى ادّعى الجنون إلى أن هرب أخيرًا بقصة يصعب تصديقها..
تم العفو عن شاريير بالقتل في عام 1970.
في 29 يوليو 1973 ، توفي شاريير بسرطان الحلق في مدريد ، اسبانيا.

الباحثون المعاصرون يعتقدون أن شاري��ر حصل على الكثير من أحداث قصته من مساجين آخرين، وبالتالي ، قيّموا العمل على أنّه أكثر خيالية من السيرة الذاتية. وقال البعض أن حوالي 10 بالمائة فقط من كتاب شاريير يمثل الحقيقة، والبعض قال أنّه صحيح بنسبة 75 في المائة؛ لكن لو كان أقل من تلك النسب صحيح، فإن كمية الألم المتناسبة مع القصة، والنجاح بالهروب يستحق أن يُذكر ويُروى.

تم تحويل هذه الرواية إلى عمل سينمائي مرتين حيث أنتج فيلم بابيلون - - Papillonفي الولايات المتحدة سنة 1973م، كما أُعيد انتاجه عام 2017م.

What is the price of your freedom? Papillon's price for freedom is equal to his life. Reading a story like this makes me realize how lucky I am to have this kind of life because probably if I was in Henri's shoes I would have been dead for a very long time. No matter what happens to him he has one thing in his mind. To Escape. Because he was accused of a crime that he didn't commit makes his will to escape stronger.
He claims that Papillon is a true story. Some events might be real but there is no way it is completely true. It made me realize that Papillon is extremely lucky because during his escapes he mostly meets with good people that help him without waiting anything in return. While reading those parts, I was thinking that; in any moment someone will spy on him and this probably shows my faith in humanity. I have no trust in them anymore and this is one of the reasons why I don't think the story is completely true.
Regarding France, we know what France is just by looking at their national football team. They were not only cruel to the people of world but also their very own people. In this point of view it is a cursed country with very large black spots in their history which will never come off.
I quiver just by thinking how Papillon survived in those cells for all those years. Hope kept him alive. It is always hope that keeps someone alive. Papillon is a guy who can be happy with almost anything because when he was sent to prison he has absolutely nothing in his hand. He is not perfect but for sure he is a peaceful man. It was a pleasure for me to get to know him and acquaintance myself with his story.
This book thought me what hope does to a person and what is freedom. Without those two, you have absolutely nothing. Even money can't help you without these two. He was a man, made for this kind of life and I am glad eventually he got what he wished for.
Henri Charrière AKA Papillon is not a writer that's why do not expect a literature novel or 100% correctness. I have read the Turkish version of this book and the translation was full of mistakes. Also the way Papillion wrote this book is going to give you clues about him. I have enjoyed this story a lot and I am glad I have read it.

A escrita pareceu-me um tanto básica mas é uma grande história de resistência e persistência e um retrato do que era o degredo nas colónias, neste caso francesa. Apontado como autobiográfico, acredito contudo que tenha havido lugar a alguma ficção. Apesar de conhecer a história através do cinema não deixei de apreciar o livro que foi uma boa companhia de férias.

Every bit as good as I remember it.

Įdomi, įtraukianti ir verčianti stebėtis. Iš tiesų Drugeliui sekėsi, arba kai nesisekė, tai bent jau iš visų įmanomų blogybių jam nutikdavo mažiausiai bloga. Kad ir kur pakliūtų, jį gerbė, laikė autoritetu. Įdomu, kaip susiklostė jo gyvenimas po visko. Tačiau vietomis skaityti buvo sunkoka, nes labiau panešėjo į sausą faktų kratinį.

Una historia emocionante la de Henri Charriere, llena de acción, drama y tensión. Una gran evasión con múltiples y variados escenarios. Recomendable.

Damn, but I love the 'redemption' genre! I'm sure there's an official genre title, but that's what I call it. You know the deal: 'Shawshank Redemption', 'A Million Little Pieces', 'Shantaram'.
...The protagonist is thrown into jail (or a mental institution)... often on a drummed up charge. Fighting tooth and nail to survive incarceration with the spirit intact, hungering to escape and punish those who put them there to begin with.

OR the book starts right after the jail-break, and the protag wants nothing more but to turn a new leaf and live an upstanding life. But the law won't forget and keeps trying to pull them back into the jaws of spirit-crushing imprisonment...

France has produced some of the best revenge/redemption tales of all time: 'The Count of Monte Cristo'--'Les Miserables'--and this last, 'Papillon', combines the best of jail-break, jail-life, revenge and the burning, unquenchable spirit to survive. At times, I could swear the book was pulsating in my hands, like a bloody heart....

In 1931, Henri Charriere (also known as Papillon) is convicted of murder on a false charge and sentenced to life in prison, with an added ten years of hard labor to be served on a penal colony in French Guiana, off the north coast of South America. Convicted in his mid-twenties, he will spend the next decade of his life trying again and again to escape. An adventure story, a diary of incarceration (from the community of the prison yards to the soul entombment of solitary), a scathing criticism of a civilized country's lack of compassion for those who stray from the law--I found myself unable to put it down. What's more, it is a memoir--

Memoirs are always tricky affairs. There comes a time inevitably in a memoir where you're like, no. Come ON. That did NOT happen. Get the fuck OUT. After 500+ pages with more than ten jail breaks, countless shivings in the shower, a half-year stint in the wilderness, superhuman feats of survival, living as one with an indigenous tribe, shark attacks, leper colonies, and almost a combined four years of entirely solitary solitary confinement (not to mention a whole herd of beautiful brown women who for reasons, simply HAD to have their breasts tattooed by the protagonist, who was more than happy to oblige....) I had to ask myself how much of this memoir's memory's had been enhanced. Turns out quite a bit of controversy had broiled back in the day when it exploded as a best seller.

The author himself claimed 75% as true.... others pegged that number much lower, but you know, I really don't care--the story is amazing, the writing is clear-cut, and there's nothing like an excellent 'redemption' book to get you up and fighting again when you're feeling sort of low.

Found myself thinking, fuck, if THIS guy could escape a maximum security penal island surrounded by shark infested waters on a goddamn BARREL--maybe I can do something with my life too?

Loved it!

Read this when I was quite young. Don’t remember the plot or the action as such, but still remember the fascination.