The Tale of the Rose - The Love Story Behind The Little Prince

Consuelo de Saint-Exupery

Random House Trade Paperbacks

2003

308 páginas

10h 16m

ISBN-10: 0812967178

Consuelo and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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.

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Que ranço do Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Ele escreveu um dos meus livros preferidos da vida, mas era um ser humano desprezível com sua esposa. Que relação completamente doentia que eles mantinham. Anos e anos de puro sofrimento, sem nunca parar para considerar como ela se sentia, e, toda vez que ela finalmente tentava se livrar desse fardo, ele bem covardemente ia lá e fazia algo para mantê-la ainda presa. Fragilizada, ela retrocedia e em pouco tempo tudo voltava ao grande desrespeito de sempre.