Banco is the follow on from Papillon and just didnt hit the same highs. I still loved the book but Papillon was so good that 40 years on I still talk about it with so much fervour & love. Banco I suppose just finished off the mystery

Không thấy nhắc đến việc gặp lại vợ con người Pháp và 2 người vợ với 2 đứa con người Anh Điêng, cuối truyện lại thêm một người vợ và đứa con gái Venezuela

{ هناك شئ واحد فقط مهم حقا في الحياة، وهو عدم الاعتراف أبدا بأنك تعرضت للهزيمة، والبدء من جديد بعد كل فشل}..
في رحلة البحث عن الحياة بعد الخروج من غياهب السجون، كان الإنتقام هو الخطوة الأولى للمظلوم؛ ليبّدد بذلك قهر سنوات السجن.
لكونت مونت كريستو وبابيو نفس الحاجة، فكلاهما دخل السّجن ظلما، وخرج منه وهو يعوّل على استرداد كرامته،الّتي أهدرها السجان.. وصل كونت مونت كريستو لمبتغاه وانتقم من جلاديه.لكن بابيون تراجع عنه؛ لأنّ الأخير وجد بلدا ٱخر (فنزويلا) قدم له الأمان، وامرأة رفعته إلى مستوى حياة كريمة، جعلته وإن لم يعفو عن جلاديهم، سيسمح لهم أن يموتوا بين عائلتهم..
رحلة بابيون لاثبات جدارته في حياة كريمة، لا تقل أهمية عن رحلته لانتزاع نفسه من جحيم السجن.
تأسفت لحال الترجمة التي لم تكن في المستوى..

Nowhere near the original. Not even remotely.

No heroic tense escapes. No exiting and heart touching experiences.

Just a lazy criminals seeking to make quick money most of the time to complete his revenge plan in France...
Shame, had high hopes for this one. :/

Henri Charriere (aka Papillon): convicted of a murder he didn't commit in 1931 and sentanced to life in penal servitude, including Devil's Island, narrated his horrendous experiences and subsequent escape in Papillon, his first book.

Banco is part 2 of his autobiography and it is hard to believe that one man can have such a rich, dangerous, exciting, thrilling and ultimately fulfilling life, especially after his earlier adventures.

This book is just as readable, exciting, engrossing and unputdownable as Papillon. Charriere writes in a simple, from-the-heart style that is highly expressive of all his thoughts and feelings of anger, frustration, hopes, dreams and passionate hatred of those that manufactured his conviction. The latter includes his intention to return one day to France and kill those who 'sent him down' - and he describes how he might do it.

I won't say too much about his life, other than one example: he gets involved in trying to relieve a community of very tough miners of their diamonds and gold through a gambling scam, in a tiny town in the Venezuelan rainforest where there is no law to speak of - just like the Wild West but in South America. You'll have to read it to find out the result!

I loved this book, which I first read as a teenager and should read every now and then to remind me that no matter what the obstacles, you must keep struggling and fighting to make a life, at which Monsieur Charriere succeeded admirably.
Highly recommended.

Having read Papillon, I was eager to learn more about what happened next. I sought out real facts and, of course, read Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon. As a writer, I was particularly interested in how the book was created and its incredible journey to publication in another country. Although some of the drawn-out parts, the "adventures for the sake of adventures," could have been condensed. Here, there's no longer the burning gaze and passion characteristic of Papillon.
In summary, I would say that the story of Papillon's publication was equally fascinating to me as the novel itself, and they should always be published together, in one volume.

Buenísimo se queda corto. De esos libros que empiezas y no puedes parar hasta acabas.
Qué capacidad tiene este hombre de adaptarse a todo lo que le viene y no desfallecer jamás.

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2015 Reading Challenge
21# A book set in a different country - Banco, Henri Charrière

Banco é a continuação da história autobiográfica de Charrière após quatorze anos de luta pela liberdade. O relato começa imediatamente onde ficámos em Papillon, ou seja, após Henri ter conquistado a sua liberdade na Venezuela. No entanto, cumprir a sua promessa de levar uma vida honesta e, ao mesmo tempo, juntar dinheiro suficiente para se vingar daqueles que, em Paris, o injustamente condenaram à prisão para o resto da vida, são dois objetivos que dificilmente se conjugam.
Em Banco, temos um relato das várias aventuras de Papillon, desde perigosos embustes no jogo de dados a assaltos falhados. A sorte parece não estar do seu lado e conseguir dinheiro suficiente para voltar a França resulta ser uma tarefa impossível depois de todas a partidas que o destino lhe prega. Henri não estava fadado a conseguir a sua vingança, mas a sua vida foi rica e cheia de aventuras que deram gosto ler. Apesar de Banco não me ter apelado tanto como Papillon, não pude não ler esta continuação. Depois de Papillon, o leitor fica com aquela curiosidade de saber o que aconteceu a seguir, aquele desejo de alcançar um conclusão definitiva, e Banco dá-nos isso quando, quase quarenta anos depois, Henri regressa a Paris e percebe finalmente que a sua melhor vingança foi ter contrariado os desejos daqueles que o prenderam, foi ter escapado e vivido uma vida mais completa e feliz do que qualquer um deles.

The best book I have ever read

Better than Papillon.

How long does it take for a man to forgive those who took his youth from him? Simply, he won't, but he will enjoy the ecstasy of victory, when he achieved right the opposite of what he supposed to lay under, achieved his own freedom, restored his life!
Henri Charrière is an ideal, that born-adventurer, who is "once in a century" reproducible.