A work by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Born in Lyon, France's second largest city, as the eldest son of a noble family of counts that had existed since the Middle Ages, Saint-Exupéry was fascinated by airplanes ever since he first flew in an airplane at the age of 12. After several jobs, he joined a commercial airline in 1926 and became a pilot for regular mail flights between Toulouse and Casablanca, and between Casablanca and Dakar. This is how he met the Sahara Desert, the setting of The Little Prince. In 1931, he married Consuelo Sun-sin, a native of San Salvador who is the model for the rose in the work. He went into exile in the United States for two and a half years from January 1941. This work was written from May 1942 to January of the following year, and was published that April. The story begins when a mail pilot makes an emergency landing in the desert and meets a mysterious boy. From the boy's monologue, Saint-Exupéry learns that the boy is a little star prince who left his planet due to a disagreement with his rose, traveled to various planets, and then came to Earth. He also learns the expression "creer des liens" from a fox he befriends on Earth. A "bond" is formed between the pilot and the prince, who learns of the prince's melancholy life, but the prince returns to his planet, leaving the pilot behind. After publishing this work, Saint-Exupéry left the United States in the hope of returning to the front lines, and joined the 33-2nd Squadron in Algiers. On July 31, 1944, he disappeared while on a reconnaissance flight from Corsica. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
フランスの作家アントアーヌ・ド・サン=テグジュペリの作品。中世以来の名家,伯爵家の長男として,フランス第2の都市リヨンに生まれたサン=テグジュペリは 12歳で初めて飛行機に乗って以来,飛行機に魅せられ,いくつかの職を経て,1926年に民間航空会社に入社,トゥールーズ~カサブランカ,カサブランカ~ダカール間の定期郵便飛行のパイロットとなる。『星の王子さま』の舞台,サハラ砂漠と彼は,こうして出会った。また,作品中のバラのモデルとされているサンサルバドル出身のコンスエロ・スンシンと 1931年に結婚。1941年1月から 2年半,アメリカ合衆国へ亡命する。この作品は 1942年5月から翌年の 1月にかけて書かれ,その 4月出版された。物語は砂漠に不時着した郵便飛行のパイロットが不思議な少年に出会い,その少年がひとり言のように話す言葉の中から,彼はある小さな星の王子で,バラとの不和が原因で星を離れ,いろいろな星を旅したあと,地球にやってきたことを知る。また,彼は地球で友達になったキツネから「絆を創造する créer des liens」という表現を学ぶ。彼の哀愁にみちた人生を知ったパイロットとの間に「絆」が生まれるが,パイロットを一人残し王子は星に帰って行く。この作品を発表後,サン=テグジュペリは戦線復帰を望んでアメリカを去り,アルジェで 33-2飛行大隊に所属,1944年7月31日,コルシカ島から偵察飛行に出たまま消息を絶った。
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