Antuan de sent exupery little prince5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It took many years-and many readings-for this reader to begin to understand that the book is a war story. He is instructed by a wise if cautious fox, and by a sinister angel of death, the snake. The rose has made him so miserable that, in torment, he has taken advantage of a flock of birds to convey him to other planets. But we are no closer to penetrating the central riddle: What is “The Little Prince” about?Įveryone knows the basic bones of the story: an aviator, downed in the desert and facing long odds of survival, encounters a strange young person, neither man nor really boy, who, it emerges over time, has travelled from his solitary home on a distant asteroid, where he lives alone with a single rose. This year marks an efflorescence of attention, including a full-scale exhibition of Saint-Exupéry’s original artwork at the Morgan Library & Museum, in New York. But it has altered the conclusion without really changing the point. Over time, the suffrage of readers has altered that conclusion, of course: a classic is a classic. ![]()
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