Saint-Exupéry Box - 5 emblematic works - War Pilot 1950 Hardcover

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• Gathered in this superb box, five works by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

War Pilot (printed in 1949)

Letter to a Hostage (1950)

Land of men (1952)

Courier South (1950)

Night Flight (1950) (preface by André Gide)

• Terre des hommes: Published in 1939, this book obtains the Grand Prize for the Novel of the French Academy

It is a series of stories, testimonies and meditations based on the sum of experiences, emotions and memories he has accumulated during his many travels. It is also a tribute to friendship and to his friends Mermoz and Guillaumet, and more broadly an opportunity to give them the keys to his humanism. Some excerpts have become famous quotes:

“As for you who save us, Bedouin of Libya, (…) you are the beloved brother. And (…) I will recognize you in all men. »

" To love is not to look at each other but to look together in the same direction. »

• Vol de nuit: Published in 1931. This work which reaches the counting of the tragedy,

prefaced by his friend André Gide, earned the Femina Prize to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and consecrated him as a man of letters.

It was a huge success, having given rise to multiple translations. Its film adaptation was even sold in Hollywood.

The main character, Rivière, is inspired by its chef Didier Daurat.

It gives life to a leader who knows how to push his men to their limits to carry out their mission: the mail must pass at all costs, the mission exceeds human life in value. The values ​​that the novel conveys are: primacy of the mission, importance of duty and responsibility for the task to be accomplished until sacrifice.

• Courrier sud: Published in 1929. Through the character of Jacques Bernis,

Saint-Exupéry recounts his own experience and his own emotions as a pilot.

Louise de Vilmorin is encamped in the character of Geneviève.

It is both a pilot's autobiographical account and a lyrical documentary of his reflections on heroism and loneliness, the faithful companion of the aviator in the early days of aeronautics. We must indeed remember these beginnings. Man is alone in stubborn, unreliable machines, and he is at the mercy of elements that are often unleashed and whose behavior was poorly known, all without a radio.

• The writer, going against the tide of the “modernist adventure” of the 20th century novel, nevertheless chose a profession — and a symbol — modernist par excellence: aviation. It's a bit of this contradiction, this too vast gap between appearance and purpose, which has long hidden the writer under the aviator.

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State

Nice set with slight wear from use

• rubbing on 2 plates (will be corrected)
• slight edge rubbing
• Insulated back

• Fresh interior
• Yellowed Pages

• 3 badly cut pages with small loss on the edge
• 2 pages with edge tears, restored
• untrimmed margins (will be cleaned)