Valle de Iao

See also: southern Mail (homonymy)

The book southern Courrier is a work of the writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry .

After the publication of his news the Aviator , Saint-Exupéry takes again his news and this first novel draws some. It tells there, since notes of flight, the epopee of the mail bound for the southern hemisphere via the Spain, the Morocco, the Mauritania until Dakar where this mail embarks on a boat for the other continent.

Jacques Bernis is pilot on the lines Latécoère which transports the mail towards the South America. Recluse, it takes refuge inside his fuselage to flee the monotonous life of these years according to war. One day it meets Genevieve, this one is married. Bernis then decides to leave its cocoon, it leaves with her to the adventure but the existence that he proposes to him cannot also be appropriate to him brings back it near her husband. The novel is strewn with the fragmentary and tragic account of this love.

It is at the same time an autobiographical account of pilot and documentary lyric of its reflections on heroism and faithful loneliness partner of the aviator of the beginnings of aeronautics. These beginnings should indeed be remembered; the man is alone in restive machines, not very reliable, and it is balloté by often unchained elements and whose behaviors were badly known the whole without radio, flying over inhospitable regions, with charts where the white spots were still innumerable where each breakdown could mean death by a bad landing or the rifle or the saber of the men of the tribes Bedouins.

One will find in work this poetic and metaphorical style which already pointed in the Aviator and who will know success that one knows in “the Small Prince”.

Pierre Billon adapted southern Courrier for the cinema in 1936.

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