Il Piccolo Principe

Di Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Il piccolo principe (Le Petit Prince) è l'opera più conosciuta di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. E' un racconto molto poetico che, nella forma di un'opera letteraria per ragazzi, affronta temi come il senso della vita e il significato dell'amore e dell'amicizia. Ciascun capitolo del libro narra di un incontro che il protagonista fa con diversi personaggi e su diversi pianeti e ognuno di questi bizzarri personaggi lascia il piccolo principe stupito e sconcertato dalla stranezza dei "grandi" («I grandi non capiscono mai niente da soli, ed è faticoso, per i bambini, star sempre lì a dargli delle spiegazioni»). Ad ogni modo, ciascuno di questi incontri può essere interpretato come un'allegoria o uno stereotipo della società moderna e contemporanea. In un certo senso, costituisce una sorta di educazione sentimentale.

• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: Harmakis Edizioni
• Data di uscita: 4 nov 2017
• ISBN: 9788898301713

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), born in Lyons, France, is one of the world’s best loved and widest read writers. His timeless fable, The Little Prince, has sold more than 100 million copies and has been translated into nearly every language. His pilot’s memoir, Wind, Sand and Stars, won the National Book Award and was named the #1 adventure book of all time by Outside magazine and was ranked #3 on National Geographic Adventure’s list of all-time-best exploration books. His other books include Night Flight; Southern Mail; and Airman's Odyssey. A pilot at twenty-six, he was a pioneer of commercial aviation and flew in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1944, while flying a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean.  Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of several bestselling biographies and historical works including, most recently, The Witches: Salem, 1692. In 2018 she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. Awarded a 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was inducted into the Academy in 2019. Schiff has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Los Angeles Times, among many other publications. She lives in New York City.