Courrier sud (novel)

The novel Südkurier ( French title: Courrier Sud) is a work by the French writer and pilot Antoine de Saint- Exupéry.

After the publication of his novel L' aviateur ( The Aviator ) Saint- Exupéry revised this and makes her his first novel. He tells basis of notes that were made during the flight, the story of a post aviator, flying toward the south, across Spain, Morocco and Mauritania to Dakar, where he boards a ship to America.

Action

Jacques Bernis is a pilot and flying mail planes to South America. As a loner him the airplane cockpit serves as a refuge to escape the monotony of the years after the First World War. One day he meets a married Geneviève. Bernis decided to leave it for his " cocoon ", he goes out with her experienced with her adventure, but the life that he proposes to her does not meet their expectations, and he brings her back to her husband. Throughout the novel, there are fragmentary descriptions of that love.

Classification

It is simultaneously an autobiographical story and a literary testimony of the author's employment with the heroism and the loneliness that always accompanied the flyer in the pioneer days of aviation. One must in fact hold the circumstances of these beginnings in mind: Man is alone delivered unruly, unreliable machines, a plaything of the elements, which often played crazy and whose behavior he lack of radio barely knew. He flew over inhospitable areas with maps in which the white spots were still evident. Any mishap could mean death by an unsuccessful emergency landing or at the hands of hostile Bedouin tribes.

In the novel, you already recognize the typical Saint- Exupéry poetic and metaphorical style which was already apparent in The Aviator and the world should be known by the Little Prince.

Film

1937 novel by Pierre Billon under the title Courrier Sud was filmed. The main roles were played by Pierre Richard - Willm ( Jacques Bernis ) and Jany Holt ( Geneviève ). The film music was composed by Jacques Ibert.