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Correo del Sur: Aventuras y reflexiones de un aviador
"Correo del Sur" es una obra fundamental publicada en 1929 que conjuga la autobiografía y la narrativa de aventuras. En este libro, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describe con lirismo y precisión la arriesgada vida de los pilotos del correo aéreo, especialmente en la línea Toulouse-Dakar. La aridez de los paisajes africanos, la soledad de los vuelos nocturnos y el desafío constante de lo desconocido se entremezclan con profundas reflexiones sobre la fraternidad, el deber y la vulnerabilidad humana. El estilo literario es sobrio, poético y filosófico, y preludia los temas existenciales que recorrarán la obra madura del autor, enmarcando la novela dentro de la literatura de entreguerras, donde la aventura técnica y humana se convierten en materia literaria. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, aviador francés y escritor, halló en su experiencia profesional la materia prima de "Correo del Sur". El autor voló para Aéropostale, participando activamente en el inicio de las rutas comerciales aéreas entre Europa y África, lo que influyó fuertemente en su percepción del peligro, el compañerismo y la soledad. Estas vivencias no solo dotan a la novela de autenticidad, sino que muestran la implicación ética y existencial del autor, quien siempre buscó trascender lo anecdótico para encontrar valores universales en la experiencia de volar. Recomiendo "Correo del Sur" a lectores interesados en la evolución de la novela de aventuras y la prosa testimonial del siglo XX. Además de ofrecer un retrato extraordinariamente humano de los pioneros de la aviación, el libro se distingue por su profundidad filosófica y su belleza literaria, anticipando los grandes temas de Saint-Exupéry. Leerlo significa no solo asomarse a una época heroica, sino también enfrentarse a los límites y riquezas de la condición humana. Esta traducción ha sido asistida por inteligencia artificial.
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Published June 17, 2025
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,564 books8,771 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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