Saint-Exupéry’s moment novel recreates the spectacle and immense solitude of flying over the Andes,taking the reader to another worldMany of us are familiar with Le Petit Prince, whether in French or English: I haven’t read it for decades but I carry out remember two salient (significant; conspicuous; standing out from the rest) details: that the prince finds a downed pilot (who narrates the story), and that when the Prince – as we suppose – dies,there is no trace of his body.
The similarities between Saint-Exupéry’s life and work are so obvious as to be obligatory to note when writing approximately him: he was a pilot of rare courage even among pilots; he was flying a reconnaissance mission over occupied France in 1944 when his plane vanished. No one knows what happened to him, but a silver bracelet with his name on it was found by a diver in the Mediterranean in 1998.
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Source: theguardian.com