A SENSE OF LIFE

by Antoine de Saint-Exupery ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 13, 1965

This collection of essays by the close to immortal French journalist and lyer begins with an excerpt from a novella published in 1926, and concludes with a ""Letter o General X"" written in 1943, two months before his death on a mission over occupied France. The title given this collection is most appropriate since in most of his writing SaintExupery seemed to be searching for the moving force in all humanity, rather than his own identity. In the letter he asks ""What can one, what must one, say to men?"" Always he looked for the key to civilization and found ""the invisible bonds that link (men) one to another in this way and not in that way."" As a journalist he witnessed inhumanity such as the mindless murders in Spain's Civil War. He saw the incongruities, some tragic, some amusing, of human direction in Stalin's Moscow of 1935. And he also perceived the eternities of wind, sand and stars. Hater of tyrannies of states and ""things"" over the dignity of man, Saint-Exupery was a prophetic voice, and this collection of some of his more marginal material is an inspiring tribute.

Pub Date: May 13, 1965

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1965

Categories: NONFICTION