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Der kleine Prinz Die Erde der Menschen: Die Originale neu übersetzt von Corinna Popp (Literatur (Leinen))
Der kleine Prinz Ein Pilot muss in der Sahara notlanden. In der Einsamkeit der Wüste begegnet ihm auf einmal der kleine Prinz, ein außerirdischer Junge, der auf dem winzigen Asteroiden B 612 lebt. Die beiden führen ein langes Gespräch und freunden sich an. Dabei streifen ihre gemeinsamen Erlebnisse und Erinnerungen nahezu alle Themen des die Einsamkeit und Freundschaft, Dummheit und Toleranz, die Wissenschaft und die Phantasie. Die Erde der Menschen Saint-Exupérys Autobiographie erzählt vor allem von den spannenden Erlebnissen als Postpilot und seiner Journalisten- und Kuriertätigkeit im spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Biographisch besonders interessant sind seine Schilderungen der Notlandung in der Sahara, da diese Erlebnisse die Inspiration für den kleinen Prinzen gaben. Saint-Exupérys Lebensbetrachtungen sind dabei mehr als eine reine Nacherzählung seines erfahrungsreichen Lebens, er unternimmt immer wieder philosophische Betrachtungen über Toleranz und Freundschaft, Integrität und letztlich die ganze conditio humana.
292 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 8, 2015
About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,515 books8,939 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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August 1, 2023
"Der kleine Prinz" ist ein sehr schönes und inspirierendes Buch. Dem vergebe ich 5/5, keine Frage.
Allerdings hat mir das andere Buch nicht so sehr gefallen und ich musste mich teilweise zum Weiterlesen motivieren. In der Mitte des Buches kam ich rein und da wurde es interessant. Seine Erfahrungen, die er im Laufe seines Berufes gemacht hat, sind sehr lebhaft beschrieben. Allerdings gab es auch Passagen, denen ich nur schwer folgen konnte und bei denen ich meine Aufmerksamkeit verlor. Auch zum Ende des Buches verlor ich meine Interesse ein wenig.
Allerdings hat mir das andere Buch nicht so sehr gefallen und ich musste mich teilweise zum Weiterlesen motivieren. In der Mitte des Buches kam ich rein und da wurde es interessant. Seine Erfahrungen, die er im Laufe seines Berufes gemacht hat, sind sehr lebhaft beschrieben. Allerdings gab es auch Passagen, denen ich nur schwer folgen konnte und bei denen ich meine Aufmerksamkeit verlor. Auch zum Ende des Buches verlor ich meine Interesse ein wenig.
January 28, 2023
The fairytale leaves food for thought and is deservingly already as beloved as it deserves. My highlight, however, were De Saint-Exupéry's autobiographical essays where he mixes very real and down to earth (pun intended) memories and adventures as a pilot in the 1920s-30s with his dreamy and sometimes cryptic writing style which makes for a wonderful reading experience.
April 17, 2024
Die Ausgabe des kleinen Prinzen darin bekommt natürlich ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
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