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Meet the Little Prince.
Gallimard, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris
Regular price
€39,00
| N° d'inventaire | 25447 |
| Format | 21 x 28 |
| Détails | 350 p., illustrated, under illustrated cover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782072971259 |
"I have never written a truer story." We owe this striking confession about The Little Prince to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself . Thus, the one of his works that most obviously belongs to the realm of the imagination would maintain the closest relationship with the truth. But the paradox is only apparent. For everything in The Little Prince signifies, expresses, testifies; not in the manner of a moral treatise or an edifying tale, but like the fruit, filled with the bitter riches of a life intensely lived, having found in the fable its most accurate and simplest expression. To go and meet the little prince is therefore to try to approach this truth by taking the multiple paths of creation, from childhood to exile. It is an attempt to make visible the existential and moral framework of a book whose universal influence is matched only by its great intimate authenticity.
Manuscripts, original watercolors, sketches and studies, biographical documents, often unpublished or little-known, provide precious clues about the birth of a character who, having risen from the very flesh and soul of his creator, became his literary double and vibrant messenger. For nothing was more important to the pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry than to make his contemporaries, as well as future generations, aware of the threat weighing on a humanity too forgetful of itself, incapable of grasping the essence of its condition. A story like this was needed to tell it, and for a long time to come.
Manuscripts, original watercolors, sketches and studies, biographical documents, often unpublished or little-known, provide precious clues about the birth of a character who, having risen from the very flesh and soul of his creator, became his literary double and vibrant messenger. For nothing was more important to the pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry than to make his contemporaries, as well as future generations, aware of the threat weighing on a humanity too forgetful of itself, incapable of grasping the essence of its condition. A story like this was needed to tell it, and for a long time to come.
Manuscripts, original watercolors, sketches and studies, biographical documents, often unpublished or little-known, provide precious clues about the birth of a character who, having risen from the very flesh and soul of his creator, became his literary double and vibrant messenger. For nothing was more important to the pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry than to make his contemporaries, as well as future generations, aware of the threat weighing on a humanity too forgetful of itself, incapable of grasping the essence of its condition. A story like this was needed to tell it, and for a long time to come.