Оглавление
Анри Шарьер. Papillon
Contents
Translator’s Introduction
First Exercise-Book Down the Drain. The Assizes
Conciergerie
Caen Prison
Second Exercise-Book On the way to Guiana. Saint-Martin-de-Ré
Leaving for Guiana
Saint-Laurent-Du-Maroni
Third Exercise-Book First Break. Escape from the Hospital
Pigeon Island
Right Out and Away
Trinidad
Fourth Exercise-Book First Break (continued) Trinidad
Setting off Again
Curaçao
The Prison at Rio Hachs
The Break from Rio Hacha
The Indians
Fifth Exercise-Book Back to Civilization. Santa Marta Prison
Break at Santa Marta
Breaks at Baranquilla
Back to Guiana
16 November 1934
The Arab and the Ants
The Cannibals’ Break
The Trial
Sixth Exercise-Book The Iles du Salut. Our Arrival at the Islands
Solitary Confinement
Life on Royale
Seventh Exercise-Book The Iles du Salut. A Raft in a Grave
Second Term of Solitary
Eighth Exercise-Book Back to Royale. The Buffaloes
Mutiny at Saint-Joseph
Ninth Exercise-Book Saint-Joseph. Carbonieri’s Death
Break from the Asylum
Tenth Exercise-Book Devil’s Island. Dreyfus’s Seat
Break from Devil’s Island
In the Bush
Cuic-Cuic
Eleventh Exercise-Book Farewell to Penal. The Break with the Chinese
Twelfth Exercise-Book Georgetown. Life in Georgetown
My Indian Family
Restaurant and Butterflies
The Bamboo Hut
Break from Georgetown
Thirteenth Exercise-Book Venezuela. The Fishermen of Irapa
El Dorado Prison
Freedom
About the Author
By the same author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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HENRI CHARRIÈRE
Papillon
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One, two, three, four, five, about turn … one, two, three, four, five, about turn … the unending to-and-fro between the door of the cell and the wall had begun.
You were not allowed to lie down during the daytime. At five in the morning everyone was woken by a piercing blast on a whistle. You had to get up, make your bed, wash, and then either walk about or sit on a stool clamped to the wall. You were not allowed to lie down all day long. And to put the last touch to the penal system the bed was made to fold up against the wall and hook there. That way the prisoner was unable to stretch himself out and he could be watched all the easier.
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