A meticulous edition that faithfully reproduces the original 1943 version and includes a novel and detailed study of Saint-Exupéry's drawings.

This special edition of "The Little Prince," almost a facsimile of the 1943 edition published in New York, arrives at Libros para soñar to commemorate 125 years since the birth of the French writer and 80 years since the end of World War II. Although Antoine de Saint-Exupéry actively participated in the beginning and final phase of the war as an aerial reconnaissance pilot, it was during his exile in the United States that he provided the greatest help to his country, despite suffering the wrath of his detractors for his refusal to take sides. From that extreme existential solitude, "The Little Prince" was born.

A specialist in this book, which she has researched for many years, Joëlle Eyheramonno not only faithfully translates the original text, but also produces a critical and annotated edition, "The Hidden Side of the Drawings of The Little Prince," where she uncovers unprecedented and astonishing aspects of this celebrated iconotext, that is, a work in which "illustrations, text, and medium are inseparable." Being—after the Bible—the second most translated book on the planet, there are countless studies on its literary and philosophical depth, but very few analyze the depth of the graphic part, which is inseparable from the written part. Because "what is essential is invisible to the eye," as Saint-Exupéry warns.

Eyheramonno Fouché, Joëlle
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine

Pages: 216
Size: 18 x 22.5

Recommended age: 10 years and up.