Saint-Exupé ry was born in Lyon, France on June 29th, 1923, and served in the French Air Force. He once intended to apply for the Naval Academy, but failed to do so, but he was lucky to become a member of the Air Force. He was also one of the earliest generation pilots in France. 1923 has been engaged in various occupations since he retired.
1926, Saint Exupé ry entered Laticole Airlines. During this period, he published the novels Mail in the South (1929) and Night Flight (193 1), and his literary reputation rose accordingly. 1939, another work, The Land of Man, came out.
During World War II, he rejoined the French Air Force. Then he went to new york to live in exile. During this period, he wrote Air Force Pilot, Letter to a Hostage, Little Prince (1943) and other works. 1944 Return to Allied Mediterranean Air Force. On a flight mission on July 3 1 that year, he flew a plane into the blue sky and never came back.
In the Middle of the Desert was selected as a middle school textbook.
French novelist and essayist Anne de Saint-Exupery. 1900 was born in Lyon on June 29th. His family is descended from the ancient Gaul elm warrior tribe. His mother is from Provence, so he is of Provence descent. 1904, he lost his father and became an orphan. He grew up in the Jesus Club in montague and Le Mans. He went to middle school in Fribourg, Switzerland, and finished his studies during the First World War. After failing to enter the naval academy, he joined the army and obtained the pilot qualification certificate during his service. After trying various careers, he became a civil aviation pilot, flying postal planes and air France planes. Flying was still an adventure at that time. A year later, he was appointed commander of Juby Air Force Base in Rio de Oro Bay. Later, a book written by Saint Exupery made the name of this midway landing station on the edge of the Sahara desert famous. It was in the wooden house there that he wrote his first work, Travel in the Sky.
Two years later, the route extended from the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil and then to Santiago, the capital of Chile. At that time, crossing the Andes (Latin America) had to rely on very primitive planes, and the highest ceiling of the plane could not reach the peak. This imaginative artist described to us the scene when this aviation technology was just used in the novel Night Flight, which won the Fermine Prize of 193 1 year.
This spring, he married Concello Centro, who was born in the Republic of El Salvador. Then he worked as a journalist for several years, conducted a lot of interviews and was able to travel to many countries and regions (such as Spanish, German, North Africa, China, etc.). ).
1935, his plane Simone crashed in the Sahara desert near the Libyan border. After waiting for three long days, he and his colleagues were rescued by Bedouins in North Africa. In People's Land, he gave a detailed account of this tragic event, while in The Little Prince, there were some hints, such as: "In the desert thousands of miles away from human habitation", the pilot had an accident.
After the Anglo-American allied forces fought in landing operation in north africa, Saint Exupé ry rushed to Algeria. Although he was over age at that time, he did military service again. On July 3 1944 and 3 1 day, he took off from Corsica, France, and carried out aerial reconnaissance missions over the Mediterranean Sea and Alps in order to photograph the ground military situation in southern France and prepare for the allied landing. As a result, he didn't come back, and neither the plane nor the pilot's body was found. At the age of 44. Because of his death, his last book could not be completed, and later the draft of this book was published under the name of Fortress.
In May 2000, a professional diver found the wreckage of the plane 70 meters below the sea floor near Marseille. Two years ago, in the same place, a fisherman once fished out a bracelet engraved with the words "Saint-Ex". According to the diver, the wreckage of the plane is scattered in the area with a length of 1 km and a width of 400 meters. Combined with the bracelet and compared with other 42 P38 planes that crashed in the south of France, it is determined that this plane can only be the one that Saint-Exupé ry once took. The French Ministry of Culture announced that Saint Exupery died in a plane crash, but the cause of the crash was unknown.
Before becoming a writer, Yi Sheng Exupery was a pilot and technician. Most of his works are based on his personal experience.
Yi Sheng Exupery is mainly an adult writer, but his famous children's literature The Little Prince is deeply loved by children all over the world. In the book, the hero, the little prince, travels around the world in search of love, strength and knowledge. With his extraordinary imagination and superb artistic expression, the author shows us a series of colorful pictures, as if bringing readers to a dreamlike world. This work is full of poetry and painting from beginning to end, which opens a corner of children's spiritual world to people.
Saint Exupery opened up many new poetic themes, such as aviation, desert, earth space, stars, universe and so on. This is his achievement. The characteristic of his creation is that he always describes the behavior and inner activities of the characters alternately around the core of his works.