The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
by Consuelo de Saint-Exupery
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Author: Consuelo de Saint-ExuperyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-01-14
ISBN: 0812967178
Number of pages: 308
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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- ISBN13: 9780812967173
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Book Reviews of The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
Book Review: strong and powerfull tale.
Summary: 5 Stars
many people see this story as a piece of mind from the point of view of a woman who some call "paris hilton of the 1930s". we must never forget, "machismo" is something Mr. Exupery had, although, as many other french men didn't like to show it at every moment. like any other relationship, everything starts smooth, with a loving couple deeply into one another, but as always is the fame and richness that get through his eyes and , of course trhough the eyes of the women after him; specially E., who is the woman who destroys the relationship. Something many don't understand is the humble origin of Consuelo. I would love to hear or read from someone else if they have EVER visited this small, tormented, yet beautiful country, where her volcanoes and forests are standing against the waves of time. Believe it or not, her origins are everything but fancy and reproachible, like many people of other origins such america, and most wuropenas of the era. It would be wrong for anyne to give her credit for everything, sonce one may argue that she was weak, like the time she fainted at the theater. Something we can never blame her for, is not loving our pilot, because that was the only thing she did until the day she died, even when he tretaed her like a disposible plate. she was taken from her homeland, her tropical sun, dense forests and fertile soil, to a cold, deserted and hateful country: France, where even there, she was able to find some types of love among the people. Mayb the country was not all that in full, but the one she called husband might as well caused the sadness in Consuelo's heart.
We should all respect her since without her, Antoine would've been incompleted. Anyone who is willing to do what she did for her partner under the same conditions, raise your hand, and see if you can make it.
Summary of The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince
Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry met in Buenos Aires in 1930-she a seductive young widow, he a brave pioneer of early aviation, decorated for his acts of heroism in the deserts of North Africa. He was large in his passions, a fierce loner with a childlike appetite for danger. She was frail and voluble, exotic and capricious. Within hours of their first encounter, he knew he would have her as his wife.Their love affair and marriage would take them from Buenos Aires to Paris to Casablanca to New York. It would take them through periods of betrayal and infidelity, pain and intense passion, devastating abandonment and tender, poetic love. The Tale of the Rose is the story of a man of extravagant dreams and of the woman who was his muse, the inspiration for the Little Prince's beloved rose-unique in all the world-whom he could not live with and could not live without.
Reading his wife's lyrical yet frank memoir of their turbulent marriage, it's easy to see why Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry (1900-1944) depicted her as the prince's beloved, difficult Rose in his most famous book, The Little Prince. The French writer's feelings for his Salvadoran wife were passionate from the moment they met in Buenos Aires. On that very first day in 1930, he cajoled her aboard his airplane, even though she was afraid of flying, and extorted a kiss by cutting the engine and threatening to drown them both in the waters below. He proposed marriage just a few days later, and the revolution roiling Argentina was hardly more unsettling for Consuelo than the emotions aroused by her swashbuckling aviator-author. "For you I am nothing but a dream," she explains. "But I want you to know I am not an object or a doll; I don't change faces on command." Blending the everyday with the abstract in a style reminiscent of The Little Prince's elliptical prose, Consuelo limns a man who loved her yet couldn't resist the adulation of other women or sit still long enough to build a life together. "You're the kind of man who is constantly in need of struggle, conquest," she tells him. "Leave, then. Leave." So off he went, on flights that often ended in crashes while she waited anxiously (but seldom patiently)--until he vanished for good during a wartime reconnaissance mission in 1944. Written a year later but unpublished until 2000, when it became a bestseller in France, Consuelo's portrait reveals a Saint-Exup?ry far more human than the tragic, mythical hero constructed by his worshipful countrymen. --Wendy Smith
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