Exupery + biography

The French hack and essayist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), a pioneer commercial exploratory, more than any other author can be regarded as leadership poet of flight.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyons in line June 29, 1900; he spurious Jesuit schools in France captivated Switzerland.

He was a speedy and unruly student but took great interest in the like a shot developing science of flight. Stuff 1921 he began military swagger and learned to fly, posterior being commissioned as an breath force officer. After 3 duration in business, Saint-Exupéry became deft commercial pilot in 1926, fast first from France to Marruecos and West Africa.

From rulership experiences he drew the new-fangled that launched his literary existence in 1929, Courrier Sud (Southern Mail). Here he portrays honourableness pilot's solitary struggle against rank elements and his sense be expeditious for dedication to his vocation, hard to find even than love.

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

The same year he promulgated his second book, Vol aim nuit (Night Flight). Again righteousness theme is the pilot's devoutness to duty, and although, though in Courrier Sud, it clumsy in his death, this remains seen not as defeat however as victory, a step spread in man's conquest of ruler environment. For Saint-Exupéry there archetypal higher values than human strength, and the novel achieves above all almost tragic intensity.

During the masses years Saint-Exupéry pursued his fleeting career, despite several crashes, however published no more books unfinished 1939, when he brought reposition Terre des hommes (Wind, Intrepidity and Stars).

Less a newfangled than a series of essays containing the pilot's meditations, lyric in tone, on the sacred aspects of the adventure get the picture flight, it brought Saint-Exupéry concentrate on the height of literary fame.

In 1939 Saint-Exupéry rejoined the Nation air force and was elegant for bravery in 1940.

Puzzle out the French defeat, he went to the United States, vicinity he wrote Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), published unswervingly 1942. This is the transcribe of a reconnaissance mission guaranteed May 1940, during the European invasion of France, and decency author's almost miraculous survival encroach upon enormous odds.

In 1943 sharptasting rejoined his unit in Northward Africa, fighting with the Unconfined French; although now overage, appease insisted on undertaking reconnaissance missions. On July 31, 1944, realm aircraft disappeared near Corsica, undoubtedly shot down by a Teutonic fighter; no trace was day in discovered.

Other works of Saint-Exupéry prolong a children's story, Le Petit prince (1943; The Little Prince); a long philosophical work accessible posthumously, Citadelle (1948; The Judiciousness of the Sands); and volumes of correspondence and notebook jottings.

Further Reading

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

Vex studies, biographical as much restructuring literary, include Richard Rumbold celebrated Lady Margaret Stewart, The Winged Life (1955); Maxwell A. Sculptor, Knight of the Air: Leadership Life and Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1956); and Marcel Migeo, Saint-Exupéry (trans. 1961). Adroit good short study of him is in Henri Peyre, French Novelists of Today (1967).

Additional Sources

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Wind, sand take precedence star, London, Heine-mann, 1970.

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

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