1.2 The life, Point of View and Significance of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 ~1944), a French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator. He was born in a noble family in Lyon. He, a successful commercial pilot before the Second World War, worked airmail routes in Europe, Africa and South America. He joined the French Air Force upon the outbreak of the Second World War, undertaking reconnaissance missions. Then, he flied to America to encourage its government to enter the war against the Nazi Germany. At that time he joined the Free French Air Force in north America. On his last assigned mission in 1944, a year after the publication of The Little Prince while he was carrying out a reconnaissance mission for his French air squadron, he disappeared over the Mediterranean where he was believed to have died.

As a writer, he won many France’s highest literary awards and also won the US National Book Award. He is renowned for his novel The Little Prince and lyrical aviation writings. Moreover, he gained world-wide fame for his achievements in his speculations about life as well as novel genre. He has written many splendid works the themes of which are that man’s greatness lies in man’s spirit which is based on man’s action, what’s more, perseverance can promote unremitting self-improvement. His works exert a deep influence on the whole world. Many of Saint-Exupéry's works are inspired by his experiences as a mail pilot so that his works mainly focuses on pilot, universe and life. One of his most representative work is The Little Prince, renowned as French rose, which begins with a pilot being marooned in the desert and is, in part, a reference to his experience of desert crash in 1935. Most of Saint-Exupéry’s life is concerned with war and aviator, encouraging him to reflect on the world and to create some of his philosophical writings. 试论《小王子》的爱与责任 (3):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_28110.html