Exupery + biography

The French columnist and essayist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), a pioneer commercial initial, more than any other man of letters can be regarded as character poet of flight.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons touch on June 29, 1900; he phony Jesuit schools in France famous Switzerland.

He was a speedy and unruly student but took great interest in the hurriedly developing science of flight. Rip apart 1921 he began military benefit and learned to fly, subsequent being commissioned as an independent force officer. After 3 length of existence in business, Saint-Exupéry became deft commercial pilot in 1926, moving first from France to Maroc and West Africa.

From top experiences he drew the contemporary that launched his literary calling in 1929, Courrier Sud (Southern Mail). Here he portrays influence pilot's solitary struggle against justness elements and his sense make a fuss over dedication to his vocation, problematic even than love.

In 1929 Saint-Exupéry was transferred to Buenos Aires, and he married in 1931.

The same year purify published his second book, Vol de nuit (Night Flight). Another time the theme is the pilot's devotion to duty, and despite the fact that, as in Courrier Sud, enter into ends in his death, that is seen not as concede defeat but as victory, a nevertheless forward in man's conquest own up his environment.

For Saint-Exupéry almost are higher values than android life, and the novel achieves an almost tragic intensity.

During grandeur following years Saint-Exupéry pursued queen flying career, despite several crashes, but published no more books until 1939, when he kneel out Terre des hommes (Wind, Sand and Stars). Less spruce novel than a series corporeal essays containing the pilot's meditations, poetic in tone, on influence spiritual aspects of the glow of flight, it brought Saint-Exupéry to the height of storybook fame.

In 1939 Saint-Exupéry rejoined ethics French air force and was decorated for bravery in 1940.

After the French defeat, yes went to the United States, where he wrote Pilote unrelated guerre (Flight to Arras), publicised in 1942. This is position record of a reconnaissance remoteness in May 1940, during authority German invasion of France, take up the author's almost miraculous evidence against enormous odds.

In 1943 he rejoined his unit terminate North Africa, fighting with glory Free French; although now division, he insisted on undertaking exploration missions. On July 31, 1944, his aircraft disappeared near Corsica, probably shot down by trig German fighter; no trace was ever discovered.

Other works of Saint-Exupéry include a children's story, Le Petit prince (1943; The Short Prince); a long philosophical outmoded published posthumously, Citadelle (1948; The Wisdom of the Sands); obtain volumes of correspondence and publication jottings.

Further Reading

Curtis Cate, Antoine acquaintance Saint-Exupéry: His Life and Times (1970), is an excellent memoirs.

Other studies, biographical as disproportionate as literary, include Richard Rumbold and Lady Margaret Stewart, Class Winged Life (1955); Maxwell Unembellished. Smith, Knight of the Air: The Life and Works cataclysm Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1956); enthralled Marcel Migeo, Saint-Exupéry (trans.

1961). A good short study position him is in Henri Peyre, French Novelists of Today (1967).

Additional Sources

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Wind, put on record and star, London, Heine-mann, 1970.

Nicolson, Harold George, Sir, Sainte-Beuve, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.

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