Night flight. Saint-Exupery A., de

Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944)-writer, poet, essayist and professional pilot. His biography is full of incredible events and adventures. The writer’s literary heritage is small in terms of volume, but he is known around the world as an author of piercing essays and the famous “little prince.”

The book includes one of the most famous works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, whose heroes make flights endless spaces of the Earth. The novel “Night Flight” (1931) was awarded the literary prize “Femin”. In 1932, the work was filmed, and in 1939, composer Luigi Dallapicol composed the opera of the same name, based on his motives. The night and its conquest by people is one of the main motives of the book in which the brave pilot of postal aviation flies through the night sky of the South American continent.

in the "military pilot", once prohibited, in France, where in At that time, the collaborationist government operated, but had a tremendous success in other countries of the world, which caused enthusiastic reviews and fierce attacks, the author invites to the next flight - an unpredictable, deadly flight in the darkness of the night, under the strongest fiery rain - but at the same time exciting, benevolent and benevolent and benevolence unforgettable.

This book is about defeat and about the people who suffered it in the name of the future victory.