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By Diane , Armchair Tour Guide · 3 posts · 1370 views
last updated Jan 18, 2013 07:12PM
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I have taken this as a work of fiction rather than a memoir, as there are a lot of debates over the truthfulness of some of the stories remembered by Charriere. The fact is that he was imprisoned several years in French Guyana and for me it matters less if the story is exactly what he did there or taken from several other inmates.
So, as a work of fiction, I greatly appreciated the message the author tried to transmit. Indeed the French punitive system at that time resembled the Russian Gulag, wh ...more
So, as a work of fiction, I greatly appreciated the message the author tried to transmit. Indeed the French punitive system at that time resembled the Russian Gulag, wh ...more
Started off interesting. Definitely had a French adventure type story feel to it, like The Count of Monte Cristo and other Dumas stories. However, after a few riveting escapes and an interesting segment involving a leper colony and the main character living with a Native American tribe, this quickly became tedious and hard to finish.
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