O Principezinho

Quel est le sujet du livre "O Principezinho"

O narrador da obra é um piloto com um avião avariado no deserto do Sahara, que, tenta desesperadamente, reparar os danos causados no seu aparelho. Um belo dia os seus esforços são interrompidos devido à aparição de um pequeno príncipe, que lhe pede que desenhe uma ovelha. Perante um domínio tão misterioso, o piloto não se atreveu a desobedecer e, por muito absurdo que pareça - a mais de mil milhas das próximas regiões habitadas e correndo perigo de vida - pegou num pedaço de papel e numa caneta e fez o que o principezinho tinha pedido. E assim tem início um diálogo que expande a imaginação do narrador para todo o género de infantis e surpreendentes direcções. «O Principezinho» conta a sua viagem de planeta em planeta, cada um sendo um pequeno mundo povoado com um único adulto. Esta maravilhosa sequência criativa evoca não apenas os grandes contos de fadas de todos os tempos, como também o extravagante «Cidades Invisíveis» de Ítalo Calvino. Uma história terna que apresenta uma exposição sentida sobre a tristeza e a solidão, dotada de uma filosofia ansiosa e poética, que revela algumas reflexões sobre o que de facto são os valores da vida.

People 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.