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טעם לחיים

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אם ספרות היא מוזיקה וגם ביטוי של רוח אנושית במילים, אפשר לדבר בקלות וללא עוררין על אפקט מוסיקלי־רוחני: "אפקט סנט־אכזופרי". "טעם לחיים" מכיל מספר יצירות המשוחחות ביניהן באופן בלתי אמצעי: מילותיו הראשונות של סנט־אכזופרי כסופר וכטייס, תיאורי ביקוריו ברוסיה, אנקדוטות מחייו, כתבים פילוסופיים ועדויות בגוף ראשון. כולם טקסטים מופתיים; יצירות מזמרות ומלמדות, שבכל אחת מהן טמונה תנועה – במרחב, בהיסטוריה, במחשבה ובבדיון. לפנינו מבט; מבט בלתי נשכח השוכן בגרעין היצירה הספרותית. זוהי לא סתם ספרות, אלא התחביר המובהק של אחד מן הסופרים הנקראים והאהובים בתולדות הפרוזה. היצירות הללו, המתורגמות לראשונה לעברית, מאפשרות לפענח את הדי־אן־איי של סנט־אכזופרי: הנושאים שהעסיקו אותו, הכמיהה לחירות אישית, הדאגה לזולת, העיסוק במשברי החברה, הפשטות והכנות, הסיפור המוליד קסם, והמעוף – מעוף ספרותי המאפשר לקורא לרחף, להתעלות, לגבוה, כמו בטיסה בין עננים לבנים וחלקי שמיים כחולים, הפתוחים לרווחה לעין ומעוררים את כל החושים.

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Published March 12, 2025

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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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.

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Interesting words of a true humanist between two world wars. I guess that the value in these texts is getting to know other writings by Saint-Exupéry, as they are not necessarily canonical, but still give an interesting glimpse to something different.
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