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Les Camarades
- Lady Ronit
- Oct 15, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 18, 2024
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1939
Les Camarades is my second encounter with the aviator-writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It’s brief and concise, but as always, excellent and profound. Holding the thin collection of French short stories in my hand, I felt as though I were holding a lost diary. And for a moment, I forgot about the harsh realities in which its author lived. For a fleeting instant, I deluded myself into thinking that Les Camarades was a story about easy friendship.
This story perfectly mirrors my current inner conflicts. My thoughts are scattered. Eighty-five years ago, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, too, teetered on the edge between friendship and death in his soul. Darkness faced off with hope in the light. Time has passed, but the world hasn’t changed.
Today, pilots still fall, just as stars fall in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. All that remains for me is to wrap myself in words and pray that despite everything my eyes have witnessed, the world can still be beautiful.
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