Letter with an hostage
Lettre with an hostage is a work of the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Saint-Exupéry initially wrote this text for the foreword of a novel of his best friend, Leon Werth: “thirty-three days”. This last is then taken refuge in the the Jura during the autumn 1940 because of its Jewish origins. Its book will however not appear and the writer then altered considerably his foreword by removing any direct reference to his friend, who becomes anonymous then in the text, and thus symbolizes French “hostage” of the occupant. This version was published autonomous in June 1943 in manner. Work is made up of six short chapters, taking again the recent elements of the life of the writer (voyage to the Portugal, evocation of the the Sahara, stay with the the United States…), mixing with it with the references to its friendship for the dedicatee and its attachment to its country.
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