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Carnets
Parmi les oeuvres de Saint-Exupéry, les Carnets sont une oeuvre à part, faite de réflexions, de constatations, d'interrogations... À l'origine, c'est une démarche personnelle destinée à n'être lue et relue que par l'auteur qui dialogue avec lui-même, et non pas des notes pouvant servir de trame à de futurs romans. Travail de réflexion intime, ils n'étaient pas destinés à la publication et représentent souvent à la suite de discussions que Saint-Exupéry avait eues avec ses amis ou relations les conclusions qu'il pouvait en tirer. Qu'il se révolte contre les Espagnols qui saccagent leur pays ou qu'il développe sa théorie de l'égalité, Saint-Exupéry se fait le chantre du langage.On retrouve dans ces pages les questions que chaque homme se pose quand il voit le monde entier dans lequel il a vécu aller à vau-l'eau, dépassé par les situations qu'ont créées ses contemporains.C'est aussi la découverte de la sensibilité d'un homme curieux de tout, qui, entre l'énoncé classique d'un théorème de physique et la résolution d'un problème financier, écrivait : "Je prendrai de chacun de vous tout le bien, et j'en formerai un cantique."
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384 pages, Pocket Book
First published January 1, 1963
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About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,557 books8,760 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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April 26, 2020
Cet ouvrage nous livre des archives importantes sur les écrits non-publiés d’Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
On y trouve ici ses pensées les plus banales comme les plus saugrenue, ses processus d’écriture, et surtout beaucoup d’esquisses et de reflections que l’on retrouve dans ses livres.
À ne pas manqué pour tous les super-fans de “Saint-Ex.”
On y trouve ici ses pensées les plus banales comme les plus saugrenue, ses processus d’écriture, et surtout beaucoup d’esquisses et de reflections que l’on retrouve dans ses livres.
À ne pas manqué pour tous les super-fans de “Saint-Ex.”
October 26, 2019
Les Carnets de Saint-Ex sont ses notes privées, des pensées jetées sur le papier. Ce livre plaira sans aucun doute à ceux qui ont aimé Citadelle.
January 10, 2025
Interessante ma difficile da comprendere alla prima lettura. Non mi è piaciuto del tutto perché più che un libro erano appunto dei pensieri soprattutto filosofici e spirituali, delle cose che riuscivo a capire alcune volte ero d’accordo altre volte ero perplessa: mi domandavo perché scrive queste cose?
Da alcuni di questi pensieri bisognerebbe prendere spunto, fanno riflettere molto sulla società di oggi.
Da alcuni di questi pensieri bisognerebbe prendere spunto, fanno riflettere molto sulla società di oggi.
August 31, 2022
Carino, a tratti un po' difficile da seguire (ma coerente con il fatto che si tratta di taccuini
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