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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Little Prince
Review by Anna Trautwein (18 yrs.)
translated by Christoph Anthony
Two human beings meet: a little prince, who lived on the surface of a tiny planet on his
own, he loves sunsets and never forgets any question he has asked before - and the
narrator, who never felt like belonging to the adults and who has given up to understand
them.
During this meeting two things happen. For the first time the little prince finds
answers to his questions which originally seem to be naive. At the same time the narrator
feels that he is understood in his struggle to look beneath the surface of things. This
process happens though or just because the conversation of both is not free of conflicts.
My opinion
A philosophical book, a book with a critical attitude towards society, a book about
loneliness - but mainly a book for children.
It is a book for children because on the one hand it talks about topics of mankind in a way children can understand and on the other hand because it describes the world viewed through the eyes of a child. It shows the lack of phantasy and the materialistic orientation of the life of adults in a radical way.
With the little prince and the narrator characters are created and described, which can seldom be found. They shake a society which never asks questions about itself, but they never behave like a teacher or even arrogant.
A good book, a necessary book - a book for children.
An internet project of Integrierte Gesamtschule Bonn-Beuel
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Stand: 13.03.1998 |
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