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Manon ballerina
V sbornik voshli unikalnye teksty de Sent-Ekzjuperi, sluchajno obnaruzhennye v chastnykh kollektsijakh uzhe posle ischeznovenija znamenitogo pisatelja-letchika i vpervye perevedennye na russkij jazyk tolko v 2009 godu.Novella "Manon, tantsovschitsa" — ego pervoe zakonchennoe proizvedenie, ne izdannoe pri zhizni i schitavsheesja uterjannym. "Aviator" — pervaja publikatsija, svoeobraznaja otpravnaja tochka. Vmeste s ranee neizvestnymi ocherkami, glavami i fragmentami romanov, v tochnosti vosproizvedennymi dokumentami i pismami (v tom chisle k vnuchke tsarja Aleksandra II, aktrise i svetskoj lvitse Natali Palej) oni predstavljajut soboj zhivoe svidetelstvo zhizni i istorii sozdanija bessmertnykh proizvedenij Antuana de Sent-Ekzjuperi.
- GenresNonfiction
231 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
About the author
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1,761 books9,148 followersPeople 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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July 5, 2021
هذا الكاتب ساحر. في جعبته الأدبية مفاجآت لا تنتهي
وهذا الكتاب خلطة عجيبة من تلك المفاجآت
قصة قصيرة، رسائل، نصوص، مقدمات عن أدب إكزوبيري وحياته
يستحق القراءة وسعيدة لضمه في مكتبتي إلى جانب "الأمير الصغير" 🌺🌺
وهذا الكتاب خلطة عجيبة من تلك المفاجآت
قصة قصيرة، رسائل، نصوص، مقدمات عن أدب إكزوبيري وحياته
يستحق القراءة وسعيدة لضمه في مكتبتي إلى جانب "الأمير الصغير" 🌺🌺
May 28, 2023
O serie de povestiri, unele neterminate, dar și scrisori și file din jurnal, Manon ballerina de Antoine de Saint-Exupery a fost o lectură informativă pentru mine. Micul prinț este cartea mea favorită din toate timpurile și volumul a reprezentat un interes aparte pentru mine în ceea ce privește „cunoașterea” autorului dincolo de lucrările sale terminate. Manon ballerina se citește mai degrabă ca un reportaj-biografie, cu ceva fragmente de povestiri sau texte neterminate.
July 24, 2022
Lettura in corso.
Il racconto "Manon ballerina" merita d'essere letto. I capitoli successivi, tra prefazioni e note dei curatori e le pagine dell'autore sull'aviazione, mi paiono farraginosi. Al momento sono insoddisfatta, opterò per un altro libro e, a lettura terminata, riprenderò questa per lanciarmi nella parte finale: le lettere inviate agli amici e, in particolare, alle amanti. Spero, in questo modo, di rianimare il mio stato d'animo e migliorare il giudizio sull'opera. Purtroppo, credo che l'autore non sia più nelle mie grazie, da quando ho riletto, con le lenti della maturità, ,"il piccolo principe"...
Il racconto "Manon ballerina" merita d'essere letto. I capitoli successivi, tra prefazioni e note dei curatori e le pagine dell'autore sull'aviazione, mi paiono farraginosi. Al momento sono insoddisfatta, opterò per un altro libro e, a lettura terminata, riprenderò questa per lanciarmi nella parte finale: le lettere inviate agli amici e, in particolare, alle amanti. Spero, in questo modo, di rianimare il mio stato d'animo e migliorare il giudizio sull'opera. Purtroppo, credo che l'autore non sia più nelle mie grazie, da quando ho riletto, con le lenti della maturità, ,"il piccolo principe"...
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May 10, 2023
أحببت الرسائل ولم أطِق القصص
November 2, 2026
Manon ballerina proves Antoine de Saint-Exupéry isn't interested in making friends with the establishment—they're tearing down the sanitized myths that keep us passive.
October 30, 2026
Reading Manon ballerina gives you an immediate reality check on how fast personal agency vanishes the minute you start taking official promises at face value.
March 28, 2017
Антуан искал себя, тем же занимались герои из небольшого наследия истинно художественных произведений. Искала себя и Манон — третьеразрядная танцовщица, прислуга, вещь для всех, «кусок мяса» для мужчин, подстилка из плоти, тело с мнительной душой. В её буднях не было того, ради чего стоило существовать. Она признаётся в никчёмности, но понимает необходимость жить. И живёт по той причине, что это необходимо. Если не ей, то другим. Оказалось, подобные люди способны вдохновлять других. То есть быть чем-то вроде музы. Манон о таком не думала, зато об этом задумался Экзюпери. Задумался и стал писать. Чья-то ничего не стоящая жизнь явила собой пример важной ценности каждого из нас. Искать нужно не своё предназначение, а быть опорой для других. Читатель должен вынести только такой вывод из первого литературного опыта Антуана.
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