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Original Title:	Vol de nuit
ISBN:	1417996501 (ISBN13: 9781417996506)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rivière, Fabien, Pellerin, Robineau
Literary Awards:	Prix Femina (1931)

Night Flight

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 6821 Users | 471 Reviews

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Night Flight is the novel that made famous Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. He realizes in this novel a real tribute to the pilots of Aéropostale. I had a hard time hanging in the beginning, it took me a long time before going back into history completely and understand all the subtlety. The pilots showed a lot of courage and motivation during the night postage period in the 1930s. The author does not simply recount the lives of drivers in their cockpits, it goes further by focusing on the lives of the "close" drivers to show us by example the despair of a woman who no longer see his husband. I found this tribute highly remarkable and fair, the writing is poetic and haunting. Rivière is a man who seems tough but he is in fact a sensitive heart who cares about his employees. Some descriptions were a little too detailed but the story does not become boring. The aviation adventure is magical, amazing and simply unforgettable.

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Title	:	Night Flight
Author	:	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2005 by Kessinger Publishing (first published December 1931)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Classics. European Literature. French Literature. Aviation

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Ratings: 3.79 From 6821 Users | 471 Reviews

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It's the early 1930's, flying back and forth over the Cordillera, delivering air mail what is there not to like? Of course, the beautifully poetic and evocative French that St. Exupéry honed to perfection, makes it even more memorable. Pour moi, si je pouvais vivre dans un livre, LE VOL DE NUIT serait il..

A beautifully penned short novel, an elegy as eulogy - as if de Saint-Exupéry was writing the book that would foreshadow his own mortal struggle with metal, wind and altitude. The enemy isn't the Luftwaffe, it's nature's sinister insouciance - far more frightening than another mortal intent on one's personal destruction. We do not pray for immortality, but only to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

dear antoine de saint-exupery, i understand that you'll never receive this letter. in the 20th century, your plane disappeared, never to be found until the beginning of the next millennium when you were long-gone. it shows that despite all the previous plane crashes you survived, such as in the sahara desert, you were not immortal. you, like your character the little prince were destined to someday fall. yet somehow everything you composed within your lifetime had such a strange magic to it.

This is the author who wrote "The Little Prince". This book, about the pilots who flew mail planes in South American during the 1930's, is written in an older style, and I wondered how much the english translation compared to the original french. I understand there are two english translations; those would be fun to compare too.This translation, done by Andre Gide, contains beautiful language and wonderfully crafted scenes. The drama was a little over the top, but I got into it. Sort of like

Readers looking for some sort of analogue to The Little Prince will be sorely disappointed. Night Flight is a very short novel about the air mail service in South America in 1932. On this particular night, one plane gets lost in a storm and crashes, and the Buenos Aires station chief waxes philosophical about Duty vs. Love and Happiness. This book is only 87 pages (with 14 point font), but still felt ponderous and melodramatic to me. Describing the patchy radio transmissions from a lost plane:

Kind of depressing, but profound and real.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a pilot when flying a plane was still a crazy dangerous thing to do. In this slim little novel he poetically captures that danger, along with the romance and beauty experienced by those pioneers of aviation.