Saint-Exupéry

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns to Saint-Exupéry for a few scenes and phrases that he uses as examples. Above all, he draws on the episode of the breakdown in the desert: close to dying of thirst, the aviator says that for the first time he felt the need to drink, whereas until then he had only known the desire. He uses it to distinguish need from desire12. In the same interview, he cites Flight to Arras: between two dangerous missions, one has never enjoyed life so much3. He links the phrase "man is a knot of relationships" to Pascal: once the knot is undone, nothing remains at the centre4. From The Little Prince, he takes up the fox and the colour of the wheat, an image of the gold of shared happiness5, as well as the drunkard who drinks to forget that he is ashamed of drinking6. He also presents the author as anti-communist and anti-Gaullist. He reads the first sentence of Citadelle as a description of how compassion gets exploited7.

1. 1Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 50:45
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6. 6#5 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...19 Nov 2020 · 1:16:29
7. 7#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 49:23

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