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The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. 'Banco' continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed Papillon - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raiding exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries - robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins show more him in 1967 - when he decides to write the book that brings his international fame. show lessTags
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Quote a fascinating life from escape into Venezuela to final peace with his past. Along the way, we get a first-hand account of not only his personal adventures and capers, but a window in Venezuela at a time of boom and then revolution. A lengthy chapter near the end recounts in detail the murder case that led to the imprisonment recounted in Papillon. This is a rollicking, exciting adventure autobiography.
Here at last is the sensational sequel to PAPILLON -- the great story of escape and adventure that took the world by storm.
Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere -- nicknamed 'Papillon' -- in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raising exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers, revolutionaries -- robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 -- when he decided to write the book that brings him international fame.
Henri Charriere died in 1973 at the age of 66.
Banco continues the adventures of Henri Charriere -- nicknamed 'Papillon' -- in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raising exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers, revolutionaries -- robbing and being robbed, his lust for life as strong as ever. He also runs night clubs in Caracas until an earthquake ruins him in 1967 -- when he decided to write the book that brings him international fame.
Henri Charriere died in 1973 at the age of 66.
Estantería pasillo, columna tercera, estante 2.
In Banco, het verrassende, prachtige vervolg op Papillon worden - naast een aantal keiharde avonturen - de voorgeschiedenis van de bagno-klant en de geboorte van de voortreffelijke schrijver, die Henri Charrière is, vol humor, spanning, wijsheid en ontroering verteld. Banco is, veel meer dan alleen een vervolg, een uitbreiding van Papillon, waaraan het een nog grotere menselijke warmte verleent.
Mar 13, 2025Dutch
“Banco” é continuação da história de “Pappilon”, quando o personagem principal sai da prisão. “Pappilon”, que significa borboleta, é a história da extraordinária aventura da vida de Henri Charrière, quando este foi condenado à prisão perpétua. O autor era tido como perigoso por jamais deixar escapar a presa. O acusado oficial fez de tudo para despedaçar a borboleta, em coro ao juiz. Ele pintava o retrato do réu com mentiras, afim de que os jurados o fizessem desaparecer da sociedade.
Julgado, passou por várias prisões chegando até a Colômbia, onde conseguiu fugir, depois de várias tentativas e de ter-se submetido a trabalhos forçados. Henri Charrière, ao descrever todo o processo pelo qual passou ao longo show more desses anos, sempre levantava à discussão de até que ponto o silêncio absoluto, o isolamento completo, infligido a uma mente jovem, podem provocar uma verdadeira vida imaginativa. A borboleta é intensa, é viva, sobrevoa onde melhor lhe parece, e, depois, em liberdade, tem que criar truques para sobreviver. Seus leitores temiam que com a morte do autor, “Pappilon” tivesse exaurido sua fonte inspiradora, mas ao ser divulgada a notícia de que, entre os papéis deixados por Charrière, se encontrara um manuscrito no qual o ex-prisioneiro dava continuidade às suas memórias. show less
Julgado, passou por várias prisões chegando até a Colômbia, onde conseguiu fugir, depois de várias tentativas e de ter-se submetido a trabalhos forçados. Henri Charrière, ao descrever todo o processo pelo qual passou ao longo show more desses anos, sempre levantava à discussão de até que ponto o silêncio absoluto, o isolamento completo, infligido a uma mente jovem, podem provocar uma verdadeira vida imaginativa. A borboleta é intensa, é viva, sobrevoa onde melhor lhe parece, e, depois, em liberdade, tem que criar truques para sobreviver. Seus leitores temiam que com a morte do autor, “Pappilon” tivesse exaurido sua fonte inspiradora, mas ao ser divulgada a notícia de que, entre os papéis deixados por Charrière, se encontrara um manuscrito no qual o ex-prisioneiro dava continuidade às suas memórias. show less
Sep 7, 2009Portuguese (Brazil)
Banco, la secuela de Papillon. Cuenta el recorrido del autor desde su liberación en América hasta su consagración en la literatura mundial; se relatan muchos paisajes de la situación política en Suramérica en esa época y como eso influyó en la vida de Charriére.
Jul 5, 2022Spanish
PAPILLON, ACUSADO DE ASESINATO (E INONCENTE), ES CONDENADO A PERPETUIDAD EN CAYENA (VENEZUELA). RELATA LA VIDA EN LA INHUMANA PRISIÓN, DONDE PERMANECE TRECE AÑOS Y SUS INTENTOS MÚLTIPLES DE FUGAS.
Apr 23, 2019Spanish
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- Canonical title
- Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillion
- Original title
- Banco
- Original publication date
- 1972
- People/Characters*
- Henri "Papillon" Charrière; Le Grand Charlot
- Important places*
- Caracas, Venezuela; Maracaïbo, Venezuela; Venezuela; Montmartre, Parijs, Frankrijk; Israël; Parijs, Frankrijk
- Epigraph
- ‘What you think of yourself matters more than what others think of you.’
(author unknown to Papillon) - Dedication
- To the memory of Dr Alex Guibert-Germain,
to Madame Alex Guibert-Bermain,
to my countrymen, the Venezuelans,
to my French, Spanish, Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Yugoslav, German, English, Greek, American, Tur... (show all)kish, Finnish, Japanese, Israeli, Swedish, Czechoslovak, Danish, Argentine, Colombian, and Brazilian friends and all those friends who are faceless but who have done me the honour of writing to me. - First words
- ‘Good luck, Frenchman!’
- Quotations*
- Wat je van jezelf denkt is belangrijker dan wat anderen van je denken (Een Papillon onbekend schrijver)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)‘... You can be dead sure that of all the people concerned in this business, you're the happiest.’
- Original language
- French
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