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Země lidí / Válečný pilot / Dopis rukojmímu / Noční let

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Kniha obsahuje díla: Země lidí, Válečný pilot, Dopis rukojmímu, Noční let.

Země lidí: je hlasem ze skutečné pouště se všemi autorovými zážitky z doby jeho pobytu na letecké lince, na Sahaře, a zároveň je hlasem všech, se kterými se Saint-Exupery setkal, hlasem Země člověka. Je rozdělena do osmi kapitol, u kterých už jen samotné názvy tvoří samostatný a ucelený řetězec, úzce spjatý s celou výstavbou díla.

Válečný pilot: svědectví o hrdinství konkrétních příslušníků letky 2/33.

Dopis rukojmímu: jedno z posledních děl Saint-Exupéryho. Dopis byl určen Leonu Werthovi, váženému literárnímu a výtvarnému kritikovi, s nímž pojil Saint-Exupéryho přátelský vztah.

Noční let: román čerpá z autorovi zkušenosti ředitele společnosti Aeroposta Argentina, která dopravovala poštu na první velké jihoamerické letecké lince.

334 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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People 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.

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August 22, 2022
it is not a book for everyone. but for these few people who likes to adventure, a masterpiece
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August 10, 2022
Čten pouze Noční let.

Pěkné, napínavé (poutavé), snílkovsky jsem do poslední chvíle věřila.
Myšlenkově propracované, hodně filozofie.

"Uvědomil si, že kousek po kousku odsunoval na stáří, "až bude čas", všechno, co zpříjemnuje lidský život. Jako by člověk skutečně jednoho dne mohl mít čas, jako by bylo možno na konci života dosáhnout onoho štastného klidu, jaký si představujeme. Ale není vůbec klidu. Není snad ani vítězství."
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April 29, 2012
Okřídlená filosofie "toho z davu".

Noční let a Země lidí famózní. Válečný pilot zpočátku také, ale pak se to změní v pouhý blábolivý pamflet o ničem, který donekonečna omílá stále jednu a tu samou myšlenku. Což ostatně platí i o Dopisu rukojmímu.
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