Saturday, July 18, 2009

What Blood Type Survived Black Death

bedside book for older children.



Charming. This is the adjective that deserves the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. A book that stands out from the rest of the production of the author for his dreamlike, symbolic. Not a straightforward task to write it after a forced landing in the desert where they had to go (along with his partner) several days with food shortages and just drink some wine. The harsh conditions caused them hallucinations. And this book has a bias to be written as a light, a flash concise in the form of a story understandably explains the basics of how ABC cope with life. Although he always has tried to label this reading as a child, the truth is that it is a book to read over time is much more enlightening. Its apparent simplicity conceals a basic wisdom but common sense unanswerable. And above all, what I think makes him a book to keep in mind is that is charming without being fussy, and can be read several times throughout life, always drawing something.