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Because it was a good book

>>22087019
since when do things work like that?

>>22087019
So you think he killed himself or was he shot down?

>>22087031
meant for >>22087021

>>22087034
Where was it implied that anyone was shot down?

>>22087019
Cause it was used to indoctrinate boomers in favor of a communist takeover

>>22087070
Memes aside, I do wonder what the culture around the book used to be. It shows strong parallels with the hippie movement, but I haven't seen any hippies bring it up.

>>22087054
The author. He went out on a recon mission and disappeared. There's evidence he was suicidal and the reports of planes being shot can't be corroborated. They found his plane in the 90s; it didn't have any damage indicating it was shot down (but they didn't find enough wreckage for that to really mean anything) and it was way off course from where his mission was supposed to take place (like, opposite direction if I'm not mistaken).

>>22087070
considering that millennials are the ones who adopted communism, it seems that it failed at that

>>22087019
How did you manage to solve the captcha?

>>22087034
Le Petit Prince? He was very well attested to have been shot down

>>22087931
No, they don't have good records confirming it and there's contrary evidence.

>>22087841
That's interesting. I did hear about him crashing his plane in real life but I never heard the details.

>>22087851
Why'd we lose Vietnam then, gramps? Boomers just want to absolve themselves of any responsibility whatsoever, its a running theme

>>22087019
Its mandatory reading in almost the whole Europe. Ofc it constantly sells.

>>22087235
Ofc they won't. This book is not america-centric. Euro hippies were into Satre and Camus, not some kiddie book

>>22088882
I'm from the Netherlands and I went to 4 different high schools without hearing it mentioned once.

>>22088982
Really? Every east Euro former Warsaw Pact country has a very annoying attachment to it.

Publié en 1943 et traduit dans des centaines de langues, “Le Petit Prince” est un monument de la littérature. Mais pourquoi?
Avec

Tiphaine Samoyault essayiste, traductrice et critique littéraire, directrice d’études à l’EHESS

Qu'y a-t-il dans ce livre qui le rend si populaire, si aimé, entre "Dessine-moi un mouton" et le renard apprivoisé?
Et pourquoi se pâmer devant une phrase aussi clichée que "L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux"?
Tout sur ce livre qui prend la forme d'une petite transcendance...
Une œuvre spirituelle soulevant des questions métaphysiques

“Si Le Petit Prince est le livre le plus lu au monde, après les œuvres religieuses, c’est qu’il est aussi un manifeste spirituel. Écrit lors de périodes moins religieuses, le livre adopte un régime de petite transcendance: il n’y a pas de Dieu absent ou lointain, pas de principe global de création, mais une réflexion autour de questions métaphysiques existentielles.” Tiphaine Samoyault


Le merveilleux qui imprègne le réel

“Au début du livre, on a l’impression d’avoir un texte réaliste entre les mains. L’aviateur est perdu dans le désert, on peut donc imaginer qu’il va chercher à manger, à s’abriter… Mais dès qu'il rencontre le petit Prince, des éléments de merveilleux s’ajoutent au texte. La rencontre entre le roman d’aventure et le merveilleux est rare et demande un temps d’adaptation. Dans Le Petit Prince, le merveilleux n’est pas une sphère autonome mais imprègne le réel.”Tiphaine Samoyault


Se rappeler de la douleur de l'enfance

“Il ne faut pas croire que le petit Prince est enfermé dans une naïveté propre à l’enfance. Il présente simplement les expériences négatives de cette période de nos vies: il a connu la mélancolie, la peur de l’abandon, la solitude… C’est la force de ce personnage, il dit aux enfants et aux adultes qui se souviennent de leur enfance que cette période est aussi très dure.”Tiphaine Samoyault

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/sans-oser-le-demander/le-petit-prince-a-80-ans-pourquoi-autant-d-eloges-alors-qu-il-est-si-gnangnan-3229721

>>22089035
That does explain a lot. It's not that big in my country. The Dutch stereotype is that we're straight-forward and preoccupied with finance, that could have something to do with it.
Or it is really big in my country and it completely passed me by on accident.

>>22087019
>"arrgh no stop being good at math or else you'll be like this miserable man"
trash book

>>22089179
This reminded me of the fact I read The Curious Incident right before it. There's a striking contrast between these books.

>>22089035
I'm from one of those countries and never heard about it.

>>22087841
I had always heard that there was a German pilot who believed (probably mistakenly) that he had shot him down and was mortified because he loved the book.

pretty sure every single French class has this as part of the curriculum. Once a book becomes part of academia sales are guaranteed for another 100 years.

Harry Potter would sell 140 million copies too if it was required reading in jr high.

>>22089179
>can’t tell the difference between “doing math” and constantly tallying ownership of things you will never experience personally, limited to the simulacra of numbers on ledgers

>>22089249
There is plenty of anti-math rhetoric outside of that scene.
>But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

>>22087019
fables are for everyone

>>22089274
“Figures” in this sense is clearly referring to the aforementioned ledger keeping

>>22089515
>clearly
Don't get too sure of yourself. That quote is from way before the businessman gets introduced.

>>22089654
…But after the author establishes how big people fixate too much on the abstract representation of real concepts to be able to tell that a drawing of a snake with a big belly probably has an elephant inside

>>22087931
Le Petit Prince was very well attested to have been bitten by a snake

>>22088809
Most boomers weren't hippies during the flower power era. However, many of them did adopt lifestyle changes created by it in the 70s. The counter culture became the mainstream. Blame mass media.

>>22088882
we read it in French class in Canada, too.

Southamerican here, i cam testify that that particular book was ultra popular at least for ppl that were born during the 80s. Particularly women, who most didnt read the book but had somewhat of a fantasy relation, inane and superficial, with a few of its quotes.
“Lo esencial es invisible a los ojos” was pretty much the stamp of every protoarthoe from that era.
Shame since exupery has actual depth in most of his obsrvations of human behaviour. Read Citadel to get the point.

>>22087019
>How did it sell 140 million copies? That's more than any Harry Potter book. The writer himself doesn't even know what the target demographic is.

It is the first book you read without any preconceptions made by marketing and Harry Potter is your model.

Anon, you have a brain that can not think autonomously... are you a bot or you are simply autistic?

>>22087019
Never read it. Worth checking out as an adult?

>>22092311
>It is the first book you read without any preconceptions made by marketing
No, but it's the first book I read of that kind that sold 140 million copies.
>>22092319
Yes. Compared to other children's books it's very complex. Though it does have a bit of an art hoe aura.

>>22087019
>>22087019
>>22087019
Is this even worth reading when you're an adult?

>>22087019
because it's beautiful

>>22092342
No, but it's the first book I read of that kind that sold 140 million copies.

You know everything. Seems legit.

>>22092319
Wondering this as well.

>>22087019
Because it's paedo-oriented book, same as Alice in Wonderland of fat, hairy bellies and huge hanging dicks. Both authors were paedos, nabokov too.

>>22092404
based schizo

>>22092388
Definitely. I have not encountered a single person who has disliked it. A friend of mine pestered me for 4 years straight before I read it. And now I pester all my other friends to read it. Exupery is among the loftiest romantic souls of that century. Nothing rivals his Letter to a Hostage and certain parts of Wind, Sand, and Stars. All of them have a recurring philosophy, best embodied, like a faint fragrance, in The Little Prince.

>>22087019
Why didn't he kicked that stupid flower off-planet anyway? She was so manipulative and he was so naive
Literally the most devilish character in french literature

>>22092867
I hate flowers (a metaphor for women) so much it's unreal

>>22092404
>Because it's paedo-oriented book, same as Alice in Wonderland of fat, hairy bellies and huge hanging dicks. Both authors were paedos, nabokov too.

You have watched too much porn, get a break.

>>22089237
The records of the same type of planes being shot down around the time he was up there are inconclusive and don't connect to where he should have been flying. They also don't match the area where the wreckage was eventually found.

>>22087019
My sadistic fucking french teacher made us read Pilote de Guerre instead of this, and quizzed us on all the aeronautical terms that appeared