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Saint-Exupery'nin Küçük Prensten önce yazdığı bu kitapta yer yer Küçük Prensin ayak seslerini duyuyoruz.
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In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
216 pages, Paperback
First published December 1,1931
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216 pages, Paperback
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April 1, 2005 by Kessinger Pub Co
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9781417996506
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1417996501
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English
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People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight, which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars, next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.
Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Saint-Exupéry worked in several professions but in 1926 went back and signed as a pilot for Aéropostale, a private airline that from Toulouse flew mail to Dakar, Senegal. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry accepted the position of airfield chief for Cape Juby in southern Morocco and began his first book, a memoir, called Southern Mail and published in 1929.
He then moved briefly to Buenos Aires to oversee the establishment of an Argentinean mail service, returned to Paris in 1931, and then published Night Flight, which won instant success and the prestigious Prix Femina. Always daring Saint-Exupéry tried from Paris in 1935 to break the speed record for flying to Saigon. Unfortunately, his plane crashed in the Libyan Desert, and he and his copilot trudged through the sand for three days to find help. In 1938, a second plane crash at that time, as he tried to fly between city of New York and Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, seriously injured him. The crash resulted in a long convalescence in New York.
He published Wind, Sand and Stars, next novel, in 1939. This great success won the grand prize for novel of the academy and the national book award in the United States. Saint-Exupéry flew reconnaissance missions at the beginning of the Second World War but went to New York to ask the United States for help when the Germans occupied his country. He drew on his wartime experiences to publish Flight to Arras and Letter to a Hostage in 1942.
Later in 1943, Saint-Exupéry rejoined his air squadron in northern Africa. From earlier plane crashes, Saint-Exupéry still suffered physically, and people forbade him to fly, but he insisted on a mission. From Borgo, Corsica, on 31 July 1944, he set to overfly occupied region. He never returned.
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I know Rivière, not Fabien, was the main character of the story, but still I wanted slightly less ambiguity in the ending from Fabien’s point of view.
And do I respect Rivière or hate him? That is the question.
Beyond that, great book. Saint-Exupery’s writing is unbelievably lyrical.
And do I respect Rivière or hate him? That is the question.
Beyond that, great book. Saint-Exupery’s writing is unbelievably lyrical.
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beş yıldızlık....
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El libro nos narra la historia de una empresa de correos aérea, donde 3 pilotos vuelan desde tres partes diferentes de Sudamérica (Santiago de Chile, La Patagonia y Uruguay) con destino a Buenos aires, para que este correo salga rumbo a Europa. Durante la historia, iremos conociendo al piloto Fabien que está en pleno recorrido y sufre ciertos problemas con un mal temporal que se aproxima. Por otra parte iremos conociendo a Riviére, el director de la red de correos y como tiene que ir tomando decisiones y se plantea si su gestión es correcta.
Me ha parecido un relato muy profundo y elaborado, donde se muestran muchos aspectos de la sociedad y dilemas que muchos nos planteamos a veces, como si estamos haciendo lo correcto o justo. Además esta fantásticamente relatado, notándose la calidad literaria del autor de El Principito y que además tiene experiencias propias como piloto; ya que los momentos de peligro se nota que son plenamente vivos.
Una buena lectura ligera y de gran calidad literaria en apenas 140 hojas, que además tienen una letra bastante grande, pero que no os dejara indiferentes aunque el tema de los aviones no vaya mucho con vosotros.
Me ha parecido un relato muy profundo y elaborado, donde se muestran muchos aspectos de la sociedad y dilemas que muchos nos planteamos a veces, como si estamos haciendo lo correcto o justo. Además esta fantásticamente relatado, notándose la calidad literaria del autor de El Principito y que además tiene experiencias propias como piloto; ya que los momentos de peligro se nota que son plenamente vivos.
Una buena lectura ligera y de gran calidad literaria en apenas 140 hojas, que además tienen una letra bastante grande, pero que no os dejara indiferentes aunque el tema de los aviones no vaya mucho con vosotros.
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«پرواز شبانه» داستان یه خلبان به اسم فابین که در پست هوایی بوینسآیرس کار میکنه و شبی گرفتار طوفان سهمگین میشه و...
در طول داستان با رییس بیرحم و از خودراضی او به نام ریویر هم آشنا میشیم که درگیر عذاب وجدان خودشه.
جملاتی از کتاب:
-- تا یک ساعت و بیست دقیقهی دیگر سوخت تمام میشود. دیر یا زود بایست در تاریکی غوطه میخورد. آه، ای کاش همینقدر بود که خود را به روشنایی روز میرساند!
گرداندن چشمانش به سوی شرق که خانهی خورشید بود چه سودی داشت؟؟
--- ریویر اندیشید: «این همان چیزی است که از آن وحشت داشتم.»
قسمتهای حساس نمایش وارد صحنه میشدند. نخستین کشش درونی او بر این حکم میکرد که آن جنبهها را بدور افکند: مادرها و زنها را نباید به صحنهی عملیات راه داد.
و در یک کشتی که در حال غرق شدن است به همه دستور میدهند که احساساتشان را خفه کنند؛ چون احساسات کمکی به ملوانان نمیکند.
در طول داستان با رییس بیرحم و از خودراضی او به نام ریویر هم آشنا میشیم که درگیر عذاب وجدان خودشه.
جملاتی از کتاب:
-- تا یک ساعت و بیست دقیقهی دیگر سوخت تمام میشود. دیر یا زود بایست در تاریکی غوطه میخورد. آه، ای کاش همینقدر بود که خود را به روشنایی روز میرساند!
گرداندن چشمانش به سوی شرق که خانهی خورشید بود چه سودی داشت؟؟
--- ریویر اندیشید: «این همان چیزی است که از آن وحشت داشتم.»
قسمتهای حساس نمایش وارد صحنه میشدند. نخستین کشش درونی او بر این حکم میکرد که آن جنبهها را بدور افکند: مادرها و زنها را نباید به صحنهی عملیات راه داد.
و در یک کشتی که در حال غرق شدن است به همه دستور میدهند که احساساتشان را خفه کنند؛ چون احساسات کمکی به ملوانان نمیکند.
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“ Çok çok güzel ,diye düşünüyordu Fabien. Kendisi ile arkadaşından başka canlının bulunmadığı bu dünyada, bir hazinenin taşları gibi içi içe duran yıldızlar arasında dolaşıyordu. Hazine odasına kapanıp kalmış, çıkış yolunu bulamayan masallardaki hırsızlar gibi. Bu alabildiğine zengin, ama ölüme mahkum iki insan, o buz gibi mücevherler arasında dolanıyordu aylak aylak.”
Küçük Prensi daha iyi anlayabilmek için yazarın pilotluk deneyimini anlatan, gökyüzünün karanlığında uçarken düşle gerçek arasında dolşan, olağanüstü bir yolculuğun hikâyesi..
Küçük Prensi daha iyi anlayabilmek için yazarın pilotluk deneyimini anlatan, gökyüzünün karanlığında uçarken düşle gerçek arasında dolşan, olağanüstü bir yolculuğun hikâyesi..
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Interesting little book with some gorgeous paragraphs and thought. It is much better in the air than on the ground - the prevailing theme when not in flight is a question of what it is to be a leader, of permanent works vs. temporary compassion. That's all fine and good but it doesn't spark. What does, I think, is A.d.S.-E.'s description of nuances of flight:
"A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair."
and even better:
"They think, these peasants, that their lamp shines only for that little table; but from fifty miles away, some one has felt the summons of their light, as though it were a desperate signal from some lonely island, flashed by shipwrecked men toward the sea."
I wish there had been more like that, and I also would have liked a greater focus on logistics (1930's South American flying is interesting, after all). As is, it's a good sequence of snapshots and not much more.
"A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair."
and even better:
"They think, these peasants, that their lamp shines only for that little table; but from fifty miles away, some one has felt the summons of their light, as though it were a desperate signal from some lonely island, flashed by shipwrecked men toward the sea."
I wish there had been more like that, and I also would have liked a greater focus on logistics (1930's South American flying is interesting, after all). As is, it's a good sequence of snapshots and not much more.
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به سختی داستان رو تموم کردم، توصیفاتش اصلا برام خوشایند نبود. شاید بشه گفت کتاب فقط چیزی حدود 60، 70 صفحه توصیفات داشت که جالب نبودن.
ضمنا محتوای اصلی داستان، من رو اصلا جذب نکرد.
کلا خوندنش خیلی سخت بود.
ولی یه جملهای داشت که به نظرم باحال بود (نه الزاما درست) و جای تأمل داره :
"ما برای نامیرایی دعا نمی کنیم بلکه دعا می کنیم که اعمالمان و همه چیز ناگهان از معنی و مفهوم خود عاری و بری نشوند زیرا در آن هنگام خلأ کامل همه چیز آشکار می شود."
ضمنا محتوای اصلی داستان، من رو اصلا جذب نکرد.
کلا خوندنش خیلی سخت بود.
ولی یه جملهای داشت که به نظرم باحال بود (نه الزاما درست) و جای تأمل داره :
"ما برای نامیرایی دعا نمی کنیم بلکه دعا می کنیم که اعمالمان و همه چیز ناگهان از معنی و مفهوم خود عاری و بری نشوند زیرا در آن هنگام خلأ کامل همه چیز آشکار می شود."
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