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Sei la parte migliore di me
Tra il 1910 e il 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry scrive alla madre numerose lettere che sono la testimonianza di un legame intenso e imprescindibile. Da bambino e poi ragazzo, tutto compreso nello studio e nella vita scolastica, lo vediamo farsi adulto, ottenere il brevetto di aviatore e costruirsi una propria matura visione del mondo. Delle sue conquiste e dei suoi fallimenti, dei «giorni affascinanti» della sua vita e della «tristezza» che spesso vi si insinua, la madre è interlocutrice costante e confidente prediletta. In pagine colme di tenerezza, Sei la parte migliore di me alza il velo sui pensieri e sulle fragilità di un uomo in grado di osservare con stupore quanto «possa essere commovente un semplice prato» e «struggente un fonografo», offrendoci il senso profondo di quello speciale, unico e indissolubile rapporto che unisce una madre e un figlio.
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Published April 29, 2021
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,548 books8,739 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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October 14, 2024
"Ieri sono stato a Casablanca. Ho portato a passeggio la mia solitudine per le strade arabe, dove pesa di meno perché si passa uno alla volta"
December 21, 2025
Un libro straordinario, una raccolta di lettere, che affonda le sue radici nel cuore della filosofia dell'autore. Il testo, ricco di simbolismo e significato profondo, porta alla scoperta di se stessi e della relazione tra l'individuo e il mondo circostante.
January 30, 2023
Ciò che mi ha colpito di più è lo sguardo di Antoine grato e incantato dalle piccole cose che lo commuovono, come un semplice prato o lo scrivere i propri pensieri su un quaderno.
Si trova anche a fare i conti con delusioni e superficialità di persone che riteneva amici, così scrive: «Non sopporto più il fatto di non riuscire a trovare nel prossimo quello che cerco; resto sempre deluso quando scopro che una mente che credevo interessante altro non è che una matassa facile da dipanare.»
Una lettura epistolare breve, malinconica ma vera che consiglio a chiunque abbia amato Il Piccolo Principe per arrivare a conoscere a fondo la parte più fragile di Antoine.
Si trova anche a fare i conti con delusioni e superficialità di persone che riteneva amici, così scrive: «Non sopporto più il fatto di non riuscire a trovare nel prossimo quello che cerco; resto sempre deluso quando scopro che una mente che credevo interessante altro non è che una matassa facile da dipanare.»
Una lettura epistolare breve, malinconica ma vera che consiglio a chiunque abbia amato Il Piccolo Principe per arrivare a conoscere a fondo la parte più fragile di Antoine.
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