It has been some time since I read a fiction in french. Last one I read one was a few years ago, The Wave by Todd Strasser french version, so it is named La Vague. Too many english books I have read, it's time to balance out a little bit. What's the best book to start off french literature than The Little Prince, Le Petit Prince.
Because of its simple language and it's barely 110 pages long, I finished it just within two hours. This is a good book for any beginner to learn french. This is the kind of book that cannot be seperated from its paintings. It kinda reminds me of another book I have on my bookshelf in my home in Penang. The similitude is uncanny but I don't think they are the same book. I definitely gonna check out the book again to verify.
I started this book without much expectation. The only fact I know about it is it is really famous, nothing else. As a children book, I didn't expect it to be so profound, metaphors after metaphors. At some point, I was kinda fed up with all this profoundness. After some time, all the metaphors do feel like 'in your face', as if the book is shouting out for attention : "I am so profound!" to me. As much as I dislike the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I love its one quote :
Mike : Why is everything here completely pointless?
Charlie : Candy doesn't have to have a point. That's why it's candy.
Not everything has to have a deeper meaning or logic. And that is how I would prefer the book to be. Not entirely pointless but at least express the meanings in a non explicit way. I don't get why the hype about this book. I don't hate it, don't get me wrong. Perhaps that means I have already became a grown-up myself.
Agree. :)
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