Classic translation by the outstanding Ukrainian translator Anatoly Perepady
Foreword by Ukrainian literary critic and critic Hanna Ulyura
One hot summer day, Major de Saint-Exupéry went on a reconnaissance flight and disappeared without a trace... It seems that the star, to which he so longed to fly all his life, finally showed him the way.
The sky has always been the second home of the pilot-writer, and the dedication to flight, like the wings of an airplane, inspired, lifted everything higher up, and then, in a rapid pique, prompted to bare the soul on the pages of novels and novels.
The author's combination of romance and front-line brotherhood, fantastic dreams and realities of war, an unbridled desire for free flight and the experience of occupation lifts us higher and assures us that there is nothing better in life than the sky and flight.
The Planet of Men and Other Works is a collection of three iconic literary masterpieces written by Exupery during the height of World War II.
In the novel "Night Flight", the author leads us through the sky-high story of the fanatical manager of the Argentine airmail company, Riviera, who only after the loss of a loyal pilot-worker comes to the realization that love and duty in this world are contradictory, but equal.
The novel "Planet of Men" is a long scenic journey dedicated to the friend Henri Guillaume of Aéropostale: touching preparations for the first flight, an extreme winter flight through the Andes, ancient volcanoes visible through the porthole, a flight over the Sahara and a plane wreck in the desert... And around storms of trials and picturesque landscapes — reflections on the meaning of life and a person's place in the world.
The travel book ends with the novel "Letter to the Hostage", which reveals the true face of France after the Second World War. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry talks to a friend trapped in the occupation and shares his own feelings caused by the war. The faces of people who lose their homes while saving their fortunes, the desire to return freedom to those who became hostages in occupied France, and the fear of losing spiritual light become the stars in the sky that make the author not to give up and climb higher and higher into the free sky.
