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2015 Programme

Event #33

Daria Galateria, Emanuele Trevi

The aviator’s tale

Sitting in a New York restaurant, in 1942, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began to draw a small blonde boy on the tablecloth, in clumsy, almost childish lines. «What’s that?», asked Curtis Hitchcock, his American editor along with Eugene Reynal. «A child I carry in my heart», answered Antoine. His editors’ insistence that he turn the doodle into a children’s story gave birth to The Little Prince, one of the three most-read books in the world: it has sold more than 140 million copies, and has been translated into more than 250 languages. Coinciding with the expiration of the copyright on the book (January 1st 2015), and with the publication of new editions and translations, Daria Galateria and Emanuele Trevi trace the history of “the 20th century’s most beautiful fairy tale” and of its author, attempting to untangle the mystery it hides.


Moderator: Mattia Carratello, Sellerio editor.

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Daria Galateria
Daria Galateria

teaches French Literature at Università La Sapienza in Rome. She has written about Proust, Buffon, Jean Giono, Paul Morand. Her works published by Sellerio include Fughe dal Re Sole. Memorie di cortigiani riluttanti (1996), Entre nous (2002), Mestieri di scrittori (2007) and Scritti galeotti. Narratori in catene dal Settecento a oggi (2012). She wrote the afterword to the new edition of The Little Prince published by Sellerio (2015). She writes for la Repubblica.

Emanuele Trevi

is a writer and literary critic. His most famous books include I cani del nulla. Una storia vera (Einaudi, 2003), Senza verso. Un’estate a Roma (Laterza, 2005), Qualcosa di scritto (Ponte alle Grazie, 2012) and Il viaggio iniziatico («i Libri del Festival della Mente», Laterza, 2013). He translated and edited the edition of The Little Prince published by Newton Compton (2015). He collaborates with Radio 3 and writes for Corriere della Sera and il manifesto.


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