Wind, Sand and Stars/Flight to Arras

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PICADOR WIND, SAND AND STARS & FLIGHT TO ARRAS by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY 'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a prose poet of the air in the sense that Conrad was a novelist of the sea. He was at once man of action, professional aviator, and writer. There is a mystique of the air in which most aviators, to a greater or lesser degree, participate; in Saint-Exupéry that mystique found voice.' MODERN WORLD LITERATURE The voice of Saint-Exupéry is the voice of man's ceaseless challenge to the elements. After his military service he went into commercial aviation and helped in the perilous work of opening up an airmail service across the desert to Dakar and across the Andes in South America. In Wind, SandandStars, part növel, part essay, his stories of battling with a tornado in the Andes, of crashing in the Libyan desert, of flying African mail across the Sahara, and of later playing Scarlet Pimpernel in the Spanish Civil War resound with the awesome wonder inspired in him by flying and glow... Tovább

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PICADOR WIND, SAND AND STARS & FLIGHT TO ARRAS by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY 'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a prose poet of the air in the sense that Conrad was a novelist of the sea. He was at once man of action, professional aviator, and writer. There is a mystique of the air in which most aviators, to a greater or lesser degree, participate; in Saint-Exupéry that mystique found voice.' MODERN WORLD LITERATURE The voice of Saint-Exupéry is the voice of man's ceaseless challenge to the elements. After his military service he went into commercial aviation and helped in the perilous work of opening up an airmail service across the desert to Dakar and across the Andes in South America. In Wind, SandandStars, part növel, part essay, his stories of battling with a tornado in the Andes, of crashing in the Libyan desert, of flying African mail across the Sahara, and of later playing Scarlet Pimpernel in the Spanish Civil War resound with the awesome wonder inspired in him by flying and glow with his exultation in action and danger. In Flight toArras, his classic story ofwar, Saint-Exupéry telis how he was sent on a reconnaissance flight over German-occupied Francé. It is 1940. The French are in chaotic retreat. His pláne is damaged. His chances of returning alive are virtually non-existent. The picture he paints of pessimism, fear, danger and courage of men who, even in defeat, still possess deep patriotism and humanity is a devastating testament of the futility of war. 'He touches nothing that he does not illuminate' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Vissza