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Courrier sud, translated as Southern Mail and Southern Carrier, is the first novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, published in 1929. Encouraged by the publication of his short story The Aviator , Saint-Exupéry followed up with this work based on his pioneering flights for the French airmail service.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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- 1925
Southern Mail. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Curtis Cate (Translator) 3.61. 1,896 ratings141 reviews. In his first novel, Saint-Exupéry pays homage to “those elemental divinities—night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of ...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Courrier Sud (Southern Mail) Saint-Exupéry’s first novel is not his shortest but it is still fairly short – fewer than a hundred pages. However, it is still a very fine novel. The story is fairly simple and is based on Saint-Exupéry’s own life and experience.
Joseph P. Ebacher. Book descriptions. In his first novel, Saint-Exupéry pays homage to “those elemental divinities-night, day, mountain, sea, and storm,” turning an account of a routine mail flight from France to North Africa into an epic rendering of the pioneer days of commercial aviation.
Résumé. Jacques Bernis est pilote sur les lignes Latécoère qui transportent le courrier de Toulouse à Casablanca et Dakar. Solitaire, il se réfugie à l'intérieur de sa carlingue pour fuir la vie monotone de ces années d'après-guerre. Un jour, il rencontre Geneviève, celle-ci est mariée.
…first book, Courrier sud (1929; Southern Mail), his new man of the skies, airmail pilot Jacques Bernis, dies in the desert of Rio de Oro. His second novel, Vol de nuit (1931; Night Flight), was dedicated to the glory of the first airline pilots and their mystical exaltation as they… Read More
Le style est très varié. D’une part, Saint-Exupéry fut sobrement narratif, cherchant la concision, allant alors jusqu’à l'ellipse, avec notamment des phrases nominales, courtes, précises, rythmées, remplies d'information et d’énergie : «Un poste français à vingt kilomètres : le seul. L’atteindre.
