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The Little Prince, in Buenos Aires

2023-06-10T10:03:18.475Z

Highlights: 80 years after Saint-Exupéry's book and its unexpected readings, through time and space. Aviator, dreamer, traveler, writer; chronicler explorer of untamed lands and dazzling cities. The Little Prince, published in April 1943, in the middle of World War II, will be one of the most read books in history. He was a visionary, who was ahead of his time and therefore also suffered in his own flesh, taken by the tragic feeling of life, of a civilization thrown into the void.


80 years after Saint-Exupéry's book and its unexpected readings, through time and space.


Aviator, dreamer, traveler, writer; chronicler explorer of untamed lands and dazzling cities, war correspondent, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry will be posthumously consecrated as author of The Little Prince, a book published in April 1943, in the middle of World War II.

Intended for reading by children – and adults who did not lose their innocence – it will be one of the most read books in history. He will not know because he died on the last day of July of '44 in a plane crash, or perhaps fallen in battle against the Nazis who had occupied his homeland.

The Little Prince, published in 1943, turns 80

Saint-Exupéry had traveled to the United States, after the German invasion of France, to try to convince Washington to support the allied forces against the Axis countries and it was there, in New York in 1942, where he wrote The Little Prince, a story full of poetry and allegories alluding to the times that were lived and what humans were doing with the planet.

He was a visionary, who was ahead of his time and therefore also suffered in his own flesh, taken by the tragic feeling of life, contemplating what he saw in the midst of the storms of steel and blood, of a civilization thrown into the void.

Ten years earlier, in 1930, Saint-Exupéry was in Buenos Aires, a trip that marked his life, as Alvaro Abós tells in Look at the Cathedral you inhabit. The life of Saint-Exupéry in Argentina (Sudamericana, 2018).

Look at the cathedral you inhabit, Alvaro Abós' book about Saint-Exupéry's life in Argentina (Sudamericana, 2018)

He arrived on 12 October 1929 and stayed until 1 February 1931. He was thirty years old and distributed letters and packages through an air network that linked Buenos Aires with Santiago de Chile and Asunción. Throughout that year it remains in Argentina and organizes a new line that connects flights to Río Gallegos, with stopovers in Bahía Blanca, Puerto Deseado and Comodoro Rivadavia.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry, aviator and writer, author of The Little Prince (1900-1944)

And it will be here, in Buenos Aires, where he met the love of his life, the Salvadoran journalist Consuelo Suncín, whom he portrayed in his iconic book as the Rose, with whom the protagonist dialogues.

Another curious fact: the first edition of The Little Prince was published in Buenos Aires in September 1951. It was translated into Spanish by Bonifacio del Carril, diplomat and politician, also fond of warplanes, international politics, diplomacy and good ties with the military.

Del Carril dedicates a book to Colonel Perón and actively participates in his overthrow. Years later, he will occupy the Foreign Ministry for a few months, with the government of Guido, and will accompany the Argentine delegation that, during the government of Illia, obtains the important diplomatic achievement of Resolution 2065 on the Malvinas in the UN, which will not prevent that president from being overthrown as well.

Bonifacio Del Carril, in 1955, translator of The Little Prince into Spanish, politician, writer and diplomat.

In a country that had lost its innocence, The Little Prince will continue to be read as more than just a children's book:

"... I showed my artwork to the older people and asked them if my drawing scared them.

"Why should a hat scare me?" –they answered.

My drawing was not a hat. It depicted a boa snake digesting an elephant. So I drew the inside of the boa snake so that older people could understand. The elderly always need explanations."

Source: clarin

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