Antoine Saint-Exupery (June 29, 1900 - disappeared 1944)He is the person who I like to most among the well-known artists or celebrities in the world.
The reasons are quite stupid, coz his birthday is same as me. :)
So I think maybe I am the person who is given the soul of Saint-Exupery 87years later
in the next centry.
He left a such a tremedous treasurable work; the Little Prince, Le Petit Prince in French,
while he was living previously before I was born. So I imagin that he sent me to the world
to confirm his work and his achievement.
Anyway., He was the French Pilot and also he left such a lot of artisitc works, especially the
literary works. I have ever read the book, called , the wisdom of the sand, but it was quite complicated and also not finished.
I think he was the writer who was stucked on his own imagination, and his own world to create
his works to give the hopeful inspirations to the others, especially to the children.
That is why I figured out the most of his works are full of abstracts, but those are not very very complicated to decode.
However, I read some his biography from the website; http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/exupery.htm.
It illustrated his personal life and his own works as well.
He was born in Lyon, France in June 29, 1900. His family was the aristocrat, however his well-known insurace executive father was died when he was only 3 years old. But his mother broungt up in the would of the imagination. However, he failed the entrance examination to go to the university, then he went to the school for the architecture; École des Beaux-Arts.
Unfortunately, the world made him the fighter in the sky. I mean when he turned to be 20s, the Second World War begun, so he became the pilot to fight for his country, France.
From that time, his challange was getting bigger, so he was a bit crazy of the speed of the zet.
One day he was isolated in the Sahara Dessert by an accident, and this experience made him
love the dessert, and write the lovely work of his entire life; the Little Prince.
As I quote his feeling about the dessert;
"Over and done with. Thirty thousand letters come safely through. The airline company kept drilling it into you: the precious mail, more precious than life itself. Enough to keep thirty thousand lovers going... Lovers, be patient! In the sinking fire of sunset here we come. Behind Bernis the clouds are thick, churned by the whirlwind in its mountain bowl. Before him lies a land decked out in sunlight, the tender muslin of the meadows, the rich tweed of the woods, the ruffled veil of the sea." (from Night Flight)
Apart from the works, and his actual career as the pilot, he had 1 love affair with the novelist Louise de Vilmorin, and later on he got married with the widow, Consuelo Gómez Carillo, who is originated from South America.
However, his marriage was not very successful.
Even though Consuelo depicted him like an innocent child, who doesn't know to grow up, the person who can't stop loving, she was very bored of her life. This was because Saint-Exupery was always being outside, and isolated by himself. Then both of them had affairs with someone else then finally divorced.
But Very interestingly, many literary scholars who study the Litte Prince, they interpret the rose of the little Prince, is the Consuelo, who was a wife of the isolated childlike French writer.
All his dramatic life was passed quite quickly, and his maddness about the speecd snatched his life earlier than the others. So he was shot, or killed himself in his own zet when he was only 44.
Many many years later, in 2000, when I just graduated my hell, the primary school with stupid kids - I hate even to memorise my life in the primary school, his flight, Lightning P-38 Lockheed, was found in May 2000.
I might be given the destiney to follow his life. :)
the statue of him, Saint-Exupery, and his sole friend, the Little Princein Lyon, France.
Le Petit Prince in French
the illustration by Saint-Exupery.
Saint-Exupery in the pilot uniform.