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brief introduction
Saint Exupé ry (1900 ~ 1944), a Frenchman, has dual identities: a pilot and a writer. He loved adventure and freedom all his life and was a pioneer in delivering mail to mountains and deserts by plane. In addition to flying, exploring the loneliness in the depths of the soul with words is another lifelong hobby of his. These two professions complement each other and set each other off. During the sixteen years from Nanyou to Little Prince, all his six works used airplanes as tools to observe the world and explore life from the height of the universe. In the history of modern literature, Saint Exupery is regarded as one of the earliest writers who paid attention to the living conditions of human beings. Representative works include the fairy tale The Little Prince (1943), the novel Nanyou (1928), the night flight (193 1 year), and the prose Land of Man (1939).
Although the fairy tale "The Little Prince" was written by the author in one go in three months, it has a profound creative background, which is the accumulation of the author's life and emotions for several years or even decades, and is the product of accumulated wealth. This is a work written by the author in memory of his childhood playmates. It is a fairy tale for adults, but it is also loved by young readers. When the author was writing The Little Prince, he drew his own illustration for the novel, which was simple and naive, like dreaming.
The French version of The Little Prince was published in the United States on 1943. Critics and readers are surprised by this book. Fairy tales are often told to children by adults, while the little prince is told to adults. Those humorous words are the key to understanding this book: For Leon Wei Erte. Please forgive the children, I dedicate this book to an adult. I did this for three important reasons. One is that this adult is my best friend in the world. The second is: this adult can understand everything, even the books written for children; The third is that this adult lives in France, where he is hungry and cold and in urgent need of comfort. If these reasons are not enough, then I want to dedicate this book to the child who once grew up. All adults are children (but only a few remember this), so I changed my childhood dedication to Leon Wei Erte. "
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Guide reading
The little prince is an extraordinary elf boy. He lives on an asteroid B6 12, which is only a little bigger than him. Accompanied by him is a little rose that he likes very much. But the vanity of the little rose hurt the little prince. The little prince left the asteroid and began an interstellar journey from the 325th to the 330th asteroid. The seventh planet he visited was the earth. Unfortunately, the little prince landed in the Sahara desert, so he didn't meet humans at first. The first creature he met was a poisonous snake, but the little prince was pure and kind, and the snake did not hurt him. Later, the little prince met a little fox. The little prince tamed the little fox and made friends with it. Fox told the little prince the secret of his heart, which made the little prince feel sad again. Then he met a pilot, and I, the little prince, told me what he saw and heard, which completely changed my view of the world. The little prince and I found the spring of life together in the Sahara desert. Finally, the little prince died with the help of the snake, and his thoughts returned to his asteroid B6 12.
I came back from the desert, but I was unhappy for a long time. "We" look at each other from a distance and miss each other. "I" remember to put a belt on the sheep's mouth for fear that the sheep would eat the roses. Six years later, I wrote the story of the little prince.
With the innocent eyes of the little prince, the author reveals the emptiness, blindness, stupidity and rigidity of adults, and writes the rootless loneliness and drifting fate of human beings with simple and childish language. At the same time, it also expresses the author's criticism of the relationship between money and eulogizes the truth, goodness and beauty.
This fairy tale is pure in language, full of emotion and poetry, and is regarded as the greatest fairy tale in the twentieth century. The concise language in The Little Prince is permeated with the author's deep thinking about human beings and human civilization. Its satire and fantasy, true feelings and philosophy make it the most famous fairy tale novel in France and even in the world.