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Inéditos
Este volume reúne um conjunto excepcional de textos inéditos de Saint-Exupéry, escritos entre 1925 e 1943: primeiras narrativas (Manon, dançando), prelecções, memórias de infância e da aviação, cartas diversas (a Louise de Vilmorin e a Natalie Paley), fragmentos de Correio do Sul e de Voo Nocturno. Todos eles permeados por uma meditação sobre o que pode conferir sentido à viagem e nos ligar ao lugar de onde vimos, estes textos ajudam a aproximar-nos da sensibilidade, das dúvidas morais e da obra de Saint-Exupéry. Manon, dançando / O Aviador / Em torno de Correio do Sul / Em torno de Voo Nocturno / Ao fim do dia fui ver o meu avião / O Piloto / Pode-se acreditar nos homens / Sete cartas a Natalie Paley
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,452 books8,830 followersPeople best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale
The Little Prince
(1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight , which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars , next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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June 25, 2020
"Inéditos" é uma coletania de excertos de textos de Antoine Saint-exupéry com a devida explicação do compilador. Na minha opinião uma grande parte deste livro acaba por não fazer muito sentido, é bastante preferível ler um livro completo do autor do que ler alguns excertos (e por vezes, na minha opinião, os excertos que iam buscar de uma determinada obra nem faziam muito sentido juntos, não passando assim o real carácter da história).
Por outro lado, o livro apresenta uma compilação de diversas cartas escritas por Saint- Exupéry que nos dão a conhecer não só a sua vida e o rumo que esta, ao longo dos anos, tomou, mas tambem a forma de pensar de Antoine. Gostei particularmente da sua crítica à crítica de Robert Brasillach sobre o seu livro "Voo Nocturno".
Assim, se por um lado o livro me acabou por desiludir bastante, por outro lado adquiri uma perceção nova da vida e das filosofias defendidas deste grande escritor e piloto!
Por outro lado, o livro apresenta uma compilação de diversas cartas escritas por Saint- Exupéry que nos dão a conhecer não só a sua vida e o rumo que esta, ao longo dos anos, tomou, mas tambem a forma de pensar de Antoine. Gostei particularmente da sua crítica à crítica de Robert Brasillach sobre o seu livro "Voo Nocturno".
Assim, se por um lado o livro me acabou por desiludir bastante, por outro lado adquiri uma perceção nova da vida e das filosofias defendidas deste grande escritor e piloto!
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