1) If you go straight and straight, you won't go far...

2) There is such a firm rule, - he told me after The little Prince. - Get up in the morning, wash your face, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.

3) You know... when it's very sad, it's good to watch the sun go down...

4) I know one planet, there lives such a gentleman with a purple face. He never smelled a flower in his entire life. I never looked at a star. He never loved anyone. And never did anything. He is busy with only one thing: he adds up the numbers. And from morning till night he repeats one thing: "I am a serious person! I am a serious person!" - just like you. And straight up puffed up with pride. In fact, he is not human. He is a mushroom.

5) If you love a flower - the only one that is no longer on any of the many millions of stars - that's enough: look at the sky - and you are happy. And you say to yourself: "Somewhere there lives my flower ..." But if the lamb eats it, it's the same as if all the stars went out at once! And it doesn't matter to you!

6) In vain I listened to her, he told me trustingly one day. - You should never listen to what the flowers say. You just have to look at them and breathe in their scent. My flower filled my whole planet with fragrance, but I did not know how to rejoice in it.

7) I did not understand anything then! It was necessary to judge not by words, but by deeds. She gave me her fragrance, lit up my life. I shouldn't have run. Behind these miserable tricks and tricks one should have guessed tenderness. The flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young, I didn't know how to love yet.

8) Then judge yourself, - said the king. - This is the most difficult. It is much harder to judge oneself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.

9) I have a flower, - he said, - and I water it every morning. I have three volcanoes, I clean them out every week. I clean all three, and the extinct one too. Few things can happen. Both my volcanoes and my flower benefit from the fact that I own them. And the stars are of no use to you...

10) Here is a man, - the little prince said to himself, continuing his journey, - here is a man whom everyone would despise - and the king, and the ambitious, and the drunkard, and the businessman. And meanwhile, of all of them, he alone, in my opinion, is not funny. Maybe because he thinks not only about himself.

11) It's really useful because it's beautiful.

12) My beauty and joy are short-lived, the little prince said to himself, and she has nothing to protect herself from the world: she only has four thorns. And I left her, and she was left on my planet all alone!

13) Exactly, - said the Fox. - You are just for me a little boy just like a hundred thousand other boys. And I don't need you. And you don't need me either. I am only a fox for you, exactly the same as a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we will need each other. You will be for me

the only one in the world. And I'll be the only one for you in the whole world...

14) You can learn only those things that you tame, - said the Fox. “People don’t have enough time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But after all, there are no shops where friends would trade, and therefore people no longer have friends. If you want a friend, tame me!

15) And if you come every time at a different time, I don’t know what hour to prepare my heart for. Rituals must be observed.

16) You are forever responsible for everyone you tamed.

17) Words only interfere with understanding each other.

17) You are beautiful, but empty, continued the Little Prince. - I don't want to die for you. Of course, a random passerby, looking at my rose, will say that it is exactly the same as you. But she alone is dearer to me than all of you. After all, it is her, and not you, I watered every day. He covered her, and not you, with a glass cap. He blocked it with a screen, protecting it from the wind. For her, he killed the caterpillars, only left two or three for the butterflies to hatch. I listened to how she complained and how she boasted, I listened to her even when she was silent. She is mine.

18) Only one heart is vigilant. You can't see the most important thing with your eyes.

19) It's good where we are not.

20) But what they are looking for can be found in a single rose, in a sip of water ...

21) It is necessary to search with the heart.

21 wise phrases are dedicated to those adults who did not read the book to the end. It was only at the beginning that the author tested your imagination with drawings of “a boa constrictor on the outside and a boa constrictor on the inside”. Pass the book through your heart, because only it sees the main thing.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French fighter pilot who died on a sortie, who became famous throughout the world as a writer. He created not so many works, but one of them made him the most beloved writer for millions of children and adults. I'm talking about his fabulous and at the same time philosophical story "The Little Prince".

The plot for Saint-Exupery does not play a major role. The main thing in his fairy tale is the thoughts and feelings of the characters, which are expressed in their words and deeds. The little prince came to Earth from a distant asteroid, which is known in star atlases under the number B-612. In the endless sands of the Sahara, he meets a pilot whose plane has crashed. The pilot has almost no water and food, he is alone and, perhaps, will die soon, because no one will find him, but the Little Prince becomes his friend, makes him forget about thirst, about loneliness, about the fear of death. The little prince awakens another thirst in the pilot - a thirst for life, confidence in victory.

Perhaps the Little Prince dreamed of a delirious man dying of thirst, but this nonsense, this fairy tale saved his life, because only thanks to the help of the Little Prince the pilot managed to repair the plane and survive. The little prince, perhaps, is a particle of the soul of the pilot himself, already an adult and rather boring, from the point of view of a child, a person. But every adult retains a particle of childhood, childish spontaneity and trust in the world, a little naive, but very kind and therefore correct view of things.

And Saint-Exupery's Little Prince is a living particle of the human soul, in which all the best is preserved. The little prince is full of kindness to the whole world. He is hardworking, does not strive for money and power, which seem to him unnecessary and ridiculous. But he is very constant in his love and friendship. He travels the universe with migratory birds, but he remembers his little planet and his rose, which misses him and waits for him.

In his travels, the Little Prince met various adults who devoted their lives to useless things. This is the king who rules the whole world, but lives on a small asteroid; a drunkard who, apart from drinking, has nothing in life; a “business man” who counts the stars and makes meaningless deals, etc. And on Earth, the Little Prince saw a lot of such people. From his point of view, absolutely reasonable, the life of adults is wrong and boring. And it is adults who make the world wrong, because the beauty of the soul, kindness, tenderness, love, truthfulness make a person weak, and only the unreasonable and senseless has strength and value. The world of grown-ups that the Little Prince encounters is turned upside down. But there are real values ​​here too. It is attachment, love. When you love, the heart sees the truth about the world and man. “Here is my secret,” the Fox said to the Little Prince, “it is very simple: only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes.”

The little prince and the pilot have learned their lesson: the world is unbearable because of the people who live in it. But without people, life is impossible at all. And therefore, each of us was born in order to live our lives for people and together with people, but not for loneliness. This is the moral of the tale of the Little Prince.

At the end of the tale, Saint-Exupery asks all readers and his heroes a question: if death is inevitable at the end of life, then doesn’t death make everything in the world meaningless? After all, it destroys both love and friendship, it destroys life itself. The Little Prince answers this question: yes, death is inevitable. But it does not make life unnecessary and meaningless. For the sake of his rose, which he loves very much and which he really needs, the Little Prince is ready to die. After all, sometimes death is just a way to return home to those who are waiting for you.

This approach of Saint-Exupéry to death is paradoxical, but very optimistic. After all, a military pilot who has seen death more than once in his life and has learned not to be afraid of it can judge these issues much better than those who live only in fear of death, never having seen it. The philosophical tale of A. de Saint-Exupery is an answer to pessimists, misanthropes and all those who do not see the meaning in human life.

The setting for this story is the desert. But the sincere friendship between the Little Prince and the pilot is an oasis in which each reader will find a spring of kindness, plunge into warm feelings, love, deep affection, where he will learn to trust himself and others.

The Little Prince is a legendary work by the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This children's fairy tale for adults was first published in 1943, since then there is no person in the world who does not know its main character - a boy with golden hair.

The Little Prince has been translated into more than 180 languages, films have been made based on it, music has been written. The book has become part of modern culture and scattered into quotes.

“But if it is some kind of bad herb, you need to uproot it as soon as you recognize it.”

In the allegorical narrative of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the planet is the soul, inner world man, and bad grass - his bad thoughts, actions and habits. The seeds of the "bad grass" should be disposed of immediately, before it takes root, becomes a trait of character and destroys the personality. After all, if the planet is very small, and there are a lot of baobabs, they will tear it to pieces.

“I must endure two or three caterpillars if I want to meet butterflies”

Some people are unpleasant to us, "slippery" and dodgy, like caterpillars. But this does not mean that they do not have anything beautiful inside. Perhaps they are just looking for their way, and someday they will turn into beautiful butterflies. One must be more tolerant of the shortcomings of others and be able to see the beautiful even in the impartial.

“How to call so that he hears, how to catch up with his soul, escaping from me ... After all, it is so mysterious and unknown, this country of tears ...”

To sympathize with someone else's pain, sincerely and delicately, is difficult. Almost the same as asking for forgiveness when offended. All words seem unnecessary and wrong. "Land of Tears" is truly incomprehensible. But the main thing is not to forget how to empathize, not to harden, unscrewing another stubborn bolt.

“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this”

Children are amazing. Until they are taught to think “right”, great ideas are born in their heads. Their imagination is boundless and pure. It is a pity that adults do not remember how innocent and beautiful the "planet" of the child is. Antoine de Saint-Exupery throughout the book reminds us how important it is to keep the child inside and not bury your childhood dreams and talents in the ground.

“Words only get in the way of understanding each other”

People speak billions of words. Most are useless and empty. And how many words do you have to regret? But this is how the world works - without words, there would probably be no society. It is only necessary not to forget what power they possess - with one phrase a person can be made happy or unhappy, made to cry or laugh. Be careful. And take care of the people with whom you feel comfortable being silent - this is priceless.

"Your rose is so dear to you because you gave it all your days"

“Earth is not an easy planet! Humans don't take up much space on Earth." We are 7 billion. Even more. But each of us has only a couple of truly close people. Cynically, we love not people, but the time spent with them. Shared experiences and adventures are what makes your rose unique, unlike thousands of other roses.

“When you let yourself be tamed, then it happens to cry”

Singles are easier. For himself, but he will not be deceived, it will not hurt. It's hard to trust. Rather, very scary. If there were still shops where friends trade, many would become regular customers. But, fortunately, they are not. And you have to "tame". Damn scary. After all, we all know that a rare friendship does without tears.

"Then judge yourself," said the king. – This is the most difficult. It is much harder to judge oneself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.”

If anyone is truly wise, it is de Saint-Exupery. People love to “judge” each other (especially on the Internet - don’t feed bread, let me write a condemning comment). It's so simple. He told the person what he was wrong about, and nothing more needs to be done. Another thing is to judge yourself. At a minimum, you will have to weed the baobabs.

“Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes”

"Listen to your heart" - this phrase can often be heard in songs and films. Perhaps it is the second most popular after "I love you." That's why we don't take it seriously. But this does not negate its depth and wisdom. You can’t believe only external things, you can’t be rational always and everywhere. Trust your heart, it won't let you down.

"You are forever responsible for everyone you tamed"

These are words that do not require reasoning. Not for a minute, not for a second, you can not forget about loved ones. We must make sure that they never enter the land of tears. We are obliged to cover them with the glass jar of our care.

The Little Prince has been translated into more than 180 languages ​​and dialects, films have been made based on it, music has been written. The story has become part of modern culture and scattered into quotes.

For those who have not read these childishly touching, but very wise lines for a long time, we have prepared a selection of 12 quotes.

“After all, all adults were children at first, only few of them remember this.”

“Here is the best portrait of him…”

"Words only get in the way of understanding each other."

“... Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes.”

"Lamps must be protected: a gust of wind can extinguish them ...".

Fox: “... Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes”

“Everyone should be asked what he can give. Power, above all, must be reasonable.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than others. If you can judge yourself correctly, then you are truly wise.”

“It is very sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone had a friend

Vain people are deaf to everything but praise.

“It's very sad when friends are forgotten. Not everyone had a friend."

The Little Prince: "The eyes are blind. Search with your heart"

“When you let yourself be tamed, then it happens to cry.”

“There is such a hard rule. Get up in the morning, wash, put yourself in order - and immediately put your planet in order.

“I must endure two or three caterpillars if I want to meet butterflies.”

"You are forever responsible for everyone you tamed"

In 1900. From an early age, the boy dreamed of life, full of adventure wanted to be a naval officer. Unfortunately, he did not pass the exam at the naval school and decided to become a pilot, despite the fact that this profession was very dangerous at that time.

For Saint-Exupery, flying was not just about flying a plane, it was a time of meditation, reflection. In the air, the writer thought deeply about loneliness, friendship, the meaning of life, freedom. He decided to publish his reflections in a book, which proved to be very successful. When his career in the field of aviation ceased to bring new successes, Saint-Exupery decided to take up creativity. He first became a journalist and traveled in Spain, Russia and Germany. He also wrote two philosophical books on aviation, Night Flight (1932) and Wind, Sand and Stars (1939). However, staying true to his love of piloting, he continued to fly whenever he could.

In 1939, when France began the war with Germany, Exupery was drafted into the army as a military pilot. France, however, was soon defeated and occupied by the Nazi troops. Saint-Exupery decided to leave his homeland and settle in the United States, where he continued his writing career. In New York in 1943 he published his most famous book- "The little Prince". Since its publication, more than 25 million copies have been sold in 75 countries around the world.

In 1942, when American troops landed in North Africa, Saint-Exupéry decided to join the US Army as a pilot. Since he was 42 years old, which is a significant age for aviation, permission was not immediately obtained. But Saint-Exupery did not give up. Finally, he was given a plane. He made many flights to occupied France. On July 31, 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry went on his last mission. His plane was shot down by the Germans over the Mediterranean.

"The Little Prince": summary, reviews

The narrator, a plane pilot, crashes in his plane, badly damaged, leaving him alone with a very meager supply of food and water. As the pilot contemplates his predicament, a serious blond little boy approaches him, asking the narrator to draw him a lamb. The man fulfills his request, and they become friends. The pilot learns that the Little Prince came here from a small planet, which the boy calls Asteroid-325, and people from planet Earth call it Asteroid B-612.

The little prince takes great care of his planet, preventing bad seeds from germinating and keeping it from overspreading baobabs.

One day, a mysterious rose appeared on the surface of the planet, and the boy fell in love with it.

After the prince caught her in a lie, he decided that he could no longer trust her. The boy decided to leave the planet. Despite the fact that at the last minute the Little Prince made up with the rose, he still went to explore other planets.

Encounter with the adult world

According to the narrator, during the journey, the Little Prince (read the reviews of children and adults about the book below) flies between two asteroids and for the first time encounters the strange world of adults. On the first six planets he visited, he met a king, a flimsy man, a drunkard, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer, each of whom lived alone and was overly absorbed in his chosen profession. Such strange behavior seems to the boy both funny and outrageous. He does not understand the desire of these people to be admired by everyone, as well as the desire to own a lot of unnecessary things.

The exception is the lamplighter, whose stubborn loyalty he admires, but otherwise the Little Prince does not find in adults good example for himself, will not learn anything useful from them. Only from the geographer does he receive new information that flowers do not grow forever, and he begins to miss the rose he left on his planet.

Visiting Planet Earth

On the advice of the geographer, the Little Prince visits Earth, but he lands in the heart of the desert and cannot find a single person. Instead, he encounters a snake that speaks in riddles and grim hints that its deadly venom can send the Little Prince back to heaven if he so desires.

The boy does not accept this offer and continues his explorations, stopping to talk to a flower with three petals and climbing to the top high mountain, which he managed to find, where he confuses his own echo with the voice of an invisible interlocutor. As a result, the Little Prince finds a rose garden, which surprises and depresses him - a rose from his planet told him that she was the only representative of her kind.

New acquaintances

The prince befriends the Fox, who teaches him that only the heart can see the most important things in life, that time spent away from the rose makes it even more attractive and special to him, that feelings make a person responsible for those creatures that he loves.

The little prince realizes that although there are many other such plants, his love for the rose makes it unique and therefore he is responsible for it. Despite this discovery, he still feels very lonely because he is so far away from his rose... The Prince ends the story by describing an encounter with two men, the Switchman and the Salesman.

Homecoming

The eighth day of the narrator's stay in the desert. At the suggestion of the Little Prince, they decide to go ahead to find food and drink. Water nourishes their hearts as well as their bodies, and in this blissful moment, both agree that so many people do not see what is really important in life. The Little Prince's mind, however, is consumed by the desire to return to his home planet to his rose, and he begins to negotiate with the snake about returning. The narrator can only fix the plane the day before the anniversary of the Prince's stay on the planet, and he sadly leaves with his friend to the place where the Little Prince landed. The snake bites the Prince, and he silently falls to the sand.

The narrator finds peace again when he cannot find the Prince's body the day after the bite - he is certain that the boy has returned to his planet. The pilot is consoled by the stars, in which he hears his friend's laughter. However, sadness often comes over him, he suddenly begins to think that the lamb, painted by him, could eat the rose of the Little Prince.

In conclusion, the narrator shows the readers a drawing of a desert landscape and asks us to stop for a minute under the stars if we suddenly find ourselves in this place, and immediately let him know if the Little Prince has returned home.

Beautiful fairy tale?

Of all the books written in French over the past century, "The Little Prince" (a brief review of contemporaries is presented below), of course, remains the most beloved work in many countries of the world. This is somewhat strange, since the meaning of the book, the purpose and intention of the author are still unclear, almost a century after its publication in print. It is really amazing, but the first reviews of Exupery's book "The Little Prince", reviews (the school was also the place where this work was considered) did not at all characterize it as a beautiful fairy tale. She has always puzzled readers.

Review of The Little Prince. Author - P.L. Travers

Among the early reviewers is only Pamela Lyndon Travers, who wrote the famous work "Mary Poppins", which can be called the English equivalent of the story "The Little Prince". The review of the book showed that she truly understood the scope of de Saint-Exupéry's work and its significance.

Opinions of children and adults

Many people stubbornly continue to believe that The Little Prince is a children's book. Paying tribute to justice, we note that Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1942, when this work was written, conceived it as a child. It usually looks like a children's book: wide format, less than a hundred pages in length, simple sentences, over 40 illustrations... Main character, as is most often the case in such works, is a child. Most bookstores display this work in the children's section.

However, as practice shows, not many children say after reading that they liked this tale.

adult book

"The Little Prince", reviews of critics about which remain mixed, is really a book for adults. The protagonist is not a young prince, but a Pilot, a middle-aged man who tells a fairy tale. A complex intertwining of internal experiences, both psychological (his artistic talent was never realized) and situational (he crashed on landing in the middle of the Sahara and cannot fix his plane), is central to the work.

The book's most enchanting episodes are those that only an adult reader can understand: Saint-Exupéry's satirical jabs about adulthood, his deliberately naive watercolor illustrations, and a Rousseau-inspired romantic message about the superiority of feeling over reason, the decay of civilization, and the pure wisdom of children. .

The book is more of an allegory than an adventure, the reviews and echoes of Dante's Divine Comedy and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress are vividly heard in The Little Prince, where we first meet the hero at a turning point in life, followed by spiritual rebirth, redemption and re- the charm.

Facts from the life of the author

Who was Antoine de Saint-Exupery? "The Little Prince" (reviews confirm this) helps to better understand the writer. Thanks to the biography written by Stacey Schiff, we can learn interesting circumstances from the life of the author. They are reflected in the story "The Little Prince" (the reviews of contemporaries are very mixed).

Forced to flee Europe, being in a difficult for him monolinguistic exile in North America, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, together with a group of like-minded people, is engaged in a petty but hot struggle with his opponents (he had a low opinion of Charles de Gaulle, who, as the writer mistakenly believed, waged war with his own - with the French, and not with the Germans) .

The work was written in Manhattan and Long Island. The forced landing in the desert depicted in The Little Prince gets rave reviews. The description of the situation is striking in its realism. And this is not surprising, because, being a pilot, in 1935 Exupery got lost for almost a week, which is reflected in the memories, visions and thoughts of imminent death and beauty, placed on the pages of the work.

strong feelings

The love story of the Prince and Rose is a reflection of the author's stormy romance with his wife Consuelo. Rosa has some of the traits of a writer's lover: coughing, bossiness, and sudden fainting spells. As Schiff recounts in her work, when de Saint-Exupery was lost in the desert in 1935, Consuelo mourned the loss on her own "asteroid" - at a table in the small restaurant Lipp. Exupery tells the story in a semi-autobiographical manner, beginning with an anecdote about how, as a child, he had to listen to the urging of reasonable adults to lay down paints and colored pencils and get down to business.

Adaptations of the work

AT different time many attempts were made to adapt the creation of "The Little Prince" (many artists left a review of the book), to display it on stage and on a television screen.

The first production appeared in 1963 at the Maturins Theater in Paris. Its author is Raymond Gerome. In 1974, Stanley Donen made a musical based on this story, in 1981 Hugh Wheeler, Don Black and John Barry tried to make their own version on Broadway. Since then, hundreds of stage adaptations of the book have appeared, including school, amateur productions of The Little Prince (the performance always collects enthusiastic reviews).

The version shown at the Lookingglass Theater is an adaptation by Rick Cummins and John Scaullar. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the French edition of The Little Prince (composition, reviews see above), Virgil Tanase made a famous adaptation at the Michel Theater in Paris. This version remains the most popular both in France and abroad.

In Moscow, admirers of Exupery's talent are pleased with the theater "Sphere". "The Little Prince" reviews are mostly positive.