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Guatemala (EFE) .- Antonie Saint-Exupery met Guatemala by chance. Whoever destroyed his plane and left him injured. He had gone out to cross the skies of America in search of that numen that he was directing his pen and it was in the land of eternal spring where he found inspiration for his famous work: "The Little Prince" . 1938, when the aviator and writer began a journey from New York to Punta Arenas in South America. On the way, Saint-Exupéry, the third of five brothers of a family of the French aristocracy, decided to stop at Guatemala to refuel.
But on takeoff, a complication on the left He crashed the plane, with the novelist and his mechanic on board. The aviator suffered several fractures and spent five days in a coma. Such was the gravity of the time when the colonial city of Antigua was recovering from its wounds.
To celebrate the pbadage of this writer by Guatemala the Ludwig von Mises Library, of the University Francisco Marroquín organized a series of activities. Among them, talking about the traces of this trip in his unique work, explained to Efe the professor Luna Mishaan of Jaschkowitz .
This teacher, a creative and modest verb, first read the book when she was a child by the influence of her grandmother, a woman of French descent who devoted her entire life to reading. This is his "life example". Later she read it with her children and in the last days she has returned to the pages of a marked copy on each page more than three times.
She is convinced that the most "fascinating" of this work is that everything is a "personal perception" that varies according to the stages of life of every human being who decides to interfere in the story. It is there that he now sees parallels with his Guatemala .
The three volcanoes, one of them inactive, the roses or the "Cerro del oro", a kind of hat that reflects the boa when he swallowed the elephant, are references clear to the Guatemalan landscape and specifically to the colonial city La Antigua where Saint-Exupéry recovers after the accident.
"I was saying again – I have a flower that I sprinkle every day; I own three volcanoes that I sweep every week, because I'm also busy with the one that is extinct " reads a fragment of this work.
It is known that the writer had an accident in Guatemala ] And that one of his doctors who treated him at the military hospital was the father of Luz Méndez de la Vega National Prize for Literature and one of the characters that opened the gap to women in the country. The rest are appreciations that seek echo.
And that is Antigua, continues this graduate professor in letters and walks in haste in the corridors of the University, is a "magical" place that could have inspired him to create "the curtain "of" The Little Prince ", a book that continues to be valid and whose values are topical
" If I believe that (Antigua) could have had an impact on the work " says this woman who professes a deep and sincere love for Literature Saint-Exupery, a man who loved a woman from El Salvador and who walked in the streets of the colonial city of La Antigua while waiting for his recovery, had to see the volcanoes of Guatemala smelling its roses and living with its people before shaping its masterpiece.
As he himself said, he made his life a dream and his dream a reality. All so that people can see the world with the eyes of a child and let the imagination fly. Do not lose the ability to surprise. EFE (I)
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