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Du vent, du sable et des étoiles: Œuvres
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) aspirait à un monde où l'action et le rêve fussent intimement liés, convaincu qu'en cette coïncidence résidait la vérité de l'expérience vécue. Sa voie fut celle du consentement au risque : le désert et les périls aériens, qui ouvrent alors au trésor caché de l'existence, à la révélation de ce qui nous tient fraternellement et spirituellement aux nôtres et au monde. Saint-Exupéry s'est appuyé sur son exceptionnelle expérience d'aviateur pour affirmer sa confiance dans la grandeur humaine, accessible à chacun par l'engagement librement consenti. Toute son œuvre littéraire – ici resituée dans le mouvement biographique qui l'a vue naître – est une tentative admirable pour restituer poétiquement la substance même de l'existence, sa vérité intime et sincère – celle du cœur.
Réunissant les œuvres littéraires d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, de ses premiers contes et poèmes de jeunesse, inspirés par son apprentissage de pilote, à Citadelle, incluant ses quatre grands romans et Le Petit Prince, cette édition est enrichie de très nombreux documents inédits ou méconnus, se fonde sur les plus récentes découvertes et offre pour la première fois dans la collection Quarto un volume illustré en couleurs.
Réunissant les œuvres littéraires d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, de ses premiers contes et poèmes de jeunesse, inspirés par son apprentissage de pilote, à Citadelle, incluant ses quatre grands romans et Le Petit Prince, cette édition est enrichie de très nombreux documents inédits ou méconnus, se fonde sur les plus récentes découvertes et offre pour la première fois dans la collection Quarto un volume illustré en couleurs.
1680 pages, Paperback
Published November 15, 2018
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,441 books8,819 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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March 27, 2024
Un livre plein de passages qui m’ont fait penser. Il faut le lire après que tu lises le Petit prince!
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