Just the other day I was talking about Exupery with my supervisor) The professor authoritatively states that The Citadel should be read as it has come down to us: �as a collection of parables, reflections on life that are not united by a common plot. The work remained unfinished; in fact, before publication, the book was a voluminous folder of disparate sheets, which we published in 1948, combining in 219 chapters, “assuming” the logic of the author. The final result is also difficult to imagine because Saint-Exes took this book very seriously, which he considered the main one in his work, so before publishing it, he was going to “edit” it, which in his mouth meant “rewrite”. The novel is written in the first person and the narrator is, judging by the excerpts that Exupery read to friends, a Berber tribal leader whose father was killed.
And so, there are 3 possible reading options (depending on the reader's advanced level):
A book with an oriental flavor in the spirit of “One Thousand and One Nights”: sand, palaces, princes, oriental fairy tales
The book is an instruction to an enlightened sovereign: the essence of power, a wise ruler, and the ideal political structure of society
A philosophical novel about the power of the spirit, God and man's place in the world.
To begin with, of course, you should read the author's biography to understand what he wanted to convey to the reader. The Citadel is the last work of Antoine. The latter is also the meaning of the book. It contains an understanding of life and its essence.
Contrary to popular belief, love does not cause pain. The instinct of ownership torments, and it is the opposite of love. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “The Citadel“.
You can write a lot about this work, but any words will only be a pale review of the novel, in which there is a deep philosophy of life on every page. My deepest thoughts are about love, about the person, about the soul. The author worked on this work for a very long time, and I must say that the full version of the Citadel has not been published. This work is considered too complex, and for some reasons it is always published in an abbreviated version. But even this version is so complete and profound that it is impossible to even imagine what thoughts were not given a place in the publication? What is the piece about? About death in earnest, about the life that is lived, about yourself and about the earth. It is impossible to briefly describe the meaning. Just read, everyone will find in this book something of their own, inner, close to their world, their destiny, their life. This is truly a “Book for All Time”.
Just the other day I was talking about Exupery with my supervisor) The professor authoritatively states that The Citadel should be read as it has come down to us: �as a collection of parables, reflections on life that are not united by a common plot. The work remained unfinished; in fact, before publication, the book was a voluminous folder of disparate sheets, which we published in 1948, combining in 219 chapters, “assuming” the logic of the author. The final result is also difficult to imagine because Saint-Exes took this book very seriously, which he considered the main one in his work, so before publishing it, he was going to “edit” it, which in his mouth meant “rewrite”. The novel is written in the first person and the narrator is, judging by the excerpts that Exupery read to friends, a Berber tribal leader whose father was killed.
And so, there are 3 possible reading options (depending on the reader's advanced level):
A book with an oriental flavor in the spirit of “One Thousand and One Nights”: sand, palaces, princes, oriental fairy tales
The book is an instruction to an enlightened sovereign: the essence of power, a wise ruler, and the ideal political structure of society
A philosophical novel about the power of the spirit, God and man's place in the world.
To begin with, of course, you should read the author's biography to understand what he wanted to convey to the reader. The Citadel is the last work of Antoine. The latter is also the meaning of the book. It contains an understanding of life and its essence.
Contrary to popular belief, love does not cause pain. The instinct of ownership torments, and it is the opposite of love.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “The Citadel“.
You can write a lot about this work, but any words will only be a pale review of the novel, in which there is a deep philosophy of life on every page.
My deepest thoughts are about love, about the person, about the soul.
The author worked on this work for a very long time, and I must say that the full version of the Citadel has not been published. This work is considered too complex, and for some reasons it is always published in an abbreviated version. But even this version is so complete and profound that it is impossible to even imagine what thoughts were not given a place in the publication?
What is the piece about? About death in earnest, about the life that is lived, about yourself and about the earth. It is impossible to briefly describe the meaning. Just read, everyone will find in this book something of their own, inner, close to their world, their destiny, their life.
This is truly a “Book for All Time”.