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Le Petit Prince
"..Lorsque j'avais six ans j'ai vu, une fois, une magnifique image, dans un livre sur la Foret Vierge qui s'appelait "Histoires Vecues". Ca representait un serpent boa qui avalait un fauve. Voila la copie du dessin.
On disait dans le "Les serpents boas avalent leur proie tout entiere, sans la macher. Ensuite ils ne peuvent plus bouger et ils dorment pendant les six mois de leur digestion".
J'ai alors beaucoup reflechi sur les aventures de la jungle et, a mon tour, j'ai reussi, avec un crayon de couleur, a tracer mon premier dessin. Mon dessin numero 1. Il etait comme
J'ai montre mon chef d'oeuvre aux grandes personnes et je leur ai demande si mon dessin leur faisait peur.."
Le Petit Prince est une oeuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Publie en 1943 a New York simultanement en anglais et en francais, c'est un conte poetique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants.
Le langage, simple et depouille, parce qu'il est destine a etre compris par des enfants, est en realite pour le narrateur le vehicule privilegie d'une conception symbolique de la vie. Chaque chapitre relate une rencontre du petit prince qui laisse celuici perplexe quant au comportement absurde des "grandes personnes". Chacune de ces rencontres peut etre lue comme une allegorie.
Les aquarelles font partie du texte1 et participent a cette purete du depouillement et profondeur sont les qualites maitresses de l'oeuvre. On peut y lire une invitation de l'auteur a retrouver l'enfant en soi, car "toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord ete des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)". L'ouvrage est dedie a Leon Werth, mais "quand il etait petit garcon".
On disait dans le "Les serpents boas avalent leur proie tout entiere, sans la macher. Ensuite ils ne peuvent plus bouger et ils dorment pendant les six mois de leur digestion".
J'ai alors beaucoup reflechi sur les aventures de la jungle et, a mon tour, j'ai reussi, avec un crayon de couleur, a tracer mon premier dessin. Mon dessin numero 1. Il etait comme
J'ai montre mon chef d'oeuvre aux grandes personnes et je leur ai demande si mon dessin leur faisait peur.."
Le Petit Prince est une oeuvre de langue française, la plus connue d'Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Publie en 1943 a New York simultanement en anglais et en francais, c'est un conte poetique et philosophique sous l'apparence d'un conte pour enfants.
Le langage, simple et depouille, parce qu'il est destine a etre compris par des enfants, est en realite pour le narrateur le vehicule privilegie d'une conception symbolique de la vie. Chaque chapitre relate une rencontre du petit prince qui laisse celuici perplexe quant au comportement absurde des "grandes personnes". Chacune de ces rencontres peut etre lue comme une allegorie.
Les aquarelles font partie du texte1 et participent a cette purete du depouillement et profondeur sont les qualites maitresses de l'oeuvre. On peut y lire une invitation de l'auteur a retrouver l'enfant en soi, car "toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord ete des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)". L'ouvrage est dedie a Leon Werth, mais "quand il etait petit garcon".
136 pages, Paperback
First published April 6, 1943
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About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,563 books8,772 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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