The Little Prince is a work of French language, the most famous of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Published in 1943 in New York simultaneously in English and French. It is a poetic and philosophical tale in the guise of a children's story. Language, simple and uncluttered, because it is intended to be understood by children, is actually the narrator vehicle privileged symbolic conception of life. Each chapter describes a meeting of the little prince leaves one perplexed as to absurd behavior of "big people." Each of these ...
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The Little Prince is a work of French language, the most famous of Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Published in 1943 in New York simultaneously in English and French. It is a poetic and philosophical tale in the guise of a children's story. Language, simple and uncluttered, because it is intended to be understood by children, is actually the narrator vehicle privileged symbolic conception of life. Each chapter describes a meeting of the little prince leaves one perplexed as to absurd behavior of "big people." Each of these meetings can be read as an allegory. Watercolors are part of the text and participate in this purity of language: counting and depth are the key qualities of the work. You can read an invitation from the author to find the child in itself because "all grown-ups were once children. (But few of them remember it.) ." The book is dedicated to Leon Werth, but "when he was a boy.""
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