Notebooks
Carnets is texts of the French writer Saint-Exupéry which were not intended for the publication. With the beginning of the year 1950, under the impulse of Pierre Chevrier, pseudonym of Nelly de Vogüé, one of his/her close friends, the Editions Gallimard decide to gather this matter and to publish it. A colossal work of examination, deciphering, annotation and especially of classification is then carried out. Published for the first time in volume in 1953, they form a posthumous work with share, made reflections, observations, interrogations…
In the beginning, it is a personal step intended to be read and read again only by the author who dialogs with itself, and not of the notes being able to be used as screen with future novels. Intimate deliberation, they often represent following discussions that Saint-Exupéry had had with his friends or relations the conclusions which it could draw. That he revolts against the Spaniards who ransack their country or whom he develops his theory of the equality, Saint-Exupéry is made the cantor of the langage.
One finds in these pages the questions which each man puts when he sees the whole world in which it saw going to vau-l' water, exceeded by the situations which its contemporaries created.
It is also the discovery of the sensitivity of a man curious about all, which, between the traditional statement of a theorem of physics and the resolution of financial problems, wrote: “I will take each one of you all the good, and I will form a canticle of it. ”
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