Night Flight

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later, in late thirties, after the rise of Facism, Saint-Ex was criticized for the ideas presented in "". After all, many fascist atrocities were justified as "we were only doing our duty", "just following orders". I don't believe that such criticisms are justified. Saint-Ex always tried to look for the more noble emotions and motivations in man and the devotion shown by his characters was towards the improvement of the life of man.
As a writer, Saint-Ex was a perfectionist, revising his manuscripts on the way to the printer. But his obsession resulted in beautiful, poetic writing, and that shows even in translation. For example here are the first few paragraphs of "":
Already, beneath him, through the golden evening, the shadowed hills had dug their furrows and the plains grew luminous with long-enduring light. For in these lands the ground gives off this golden glow persistently, just as, even when winter goes, the whiteness of the snow persists.
Fabien, the pilot bringing ...

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