“What do you see: a hat or a snake swallowed by an elephant?” This is the eternal question that readers around the world have asked for generations before the classic.Little Prince’related to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. On April 6, that little prince from another planet turns 80 at his best and without losing an iota of relevance.
Little Prince sells every year more than five million copies worldwide and translated 500+ languages and dialects and are accepted The best French book of the 20th century. Also, every 29 June The Little Prince Day is celebrated by paying homage to its author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who was born on that day in Lyon in 1900, recalls Salamandra, the work’s official Spanish publisher.
The book is “a legendary fable and a philosophical tale that questions man’s relationship with his neighbor and the world,” they explain. «Little Prince with extraordinary simplicity, it constantly intensifies its reflection. Saint-Exupery Open friendshipHE Love, responsibility And the meaning of life. The various layers of reading allow you to delve from the most basic topics like friendship to the deepest topics like absence and the meaning of life. They say that Salamandra is an indisputable literary phenomenon that is easily accessible to all readers.
aviation fan
Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) completed his military service in the Air Force, and after that, his aviation life and his profession, which he combined with literature, became his great passion. The Little Prince tells the story of a pilot whose plane crashes and meets a young prince from another planet in the middle of the desert.
After World War II broke out, Saint-Exupéry fought as a reconnaissance pilot and settled in New York after the fall of France. In the great North American city, he wrote Piloto de guerra (1942), the result of his experiences during the war, and Little Prince (1943), «A wonderful children’s tale originality which made him universally famous and became one of the most important literary phenomena of the 20th century”. On July 31, 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry took off from Corsica airfield to fulfill a mission from which he could never return.
The publisher applauds that the little novel “continues to be successful eighty years later.” To celebrate this anniversary of The Little Prince, there will be exhibitions, shows, TV series and new products all over the world. In Spain, Salamandra infantil y juvenil will publish four different books targeting different reading stages to celebrate throughout the year. One of the most special will come to light in November when Salamandra releases “a beautiful spin-off special edition that will delight collectors and early readers alike.”
basic book
According to the editorial, in these eighty years of life, The Little Prince “has become a staple book for all ages and is recommended for reading in all schools.” The study left interesting phrases such as «.The essential is invisible» or, as the author says in the book, «It is enough to change the direction of view to see clearly.».