Micul Prinț de Antoine de Saint- Exupery – o poartă deschisă spre lume, spre ceilalți, spre sine

Abstract

80 years after its publication, Antoine de Saint Exupery’s book, The Little Prince, has its readers everywhere, being an open, flexible work, accessible to very varied categories of readers - from primary school children to adults who I reread it for the umpteenth time and find it so full of meaning. Recommended in the school curriculum, it appears in the reading lists that the teachers of Romanian language and literature compile to be a guide for students entering the secondary school cycle. Precisely because it is a book that offers so much on an interpretive level, it deserves to be studied and analyzed, on a textual level, the ME-OTHERS distinction, it operates as a method of inter and self-knowledge. The journey of the Little Prince on the surrounding planets is like an initiatory path, also a form through which he seeks happiness, following the call of the flower: „Seek to be happy!” The stops he makes are proof that every man has his own planet, his own universe over which he is master. The intercultural side allows teachers working with secondary school students to bring them closer, through an analytical reading, to what, in fact, represents our relationship to the OTHER, in the sense of a good self-knowledge exercise.