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SAINT-EXUPÉRY Antoine de.
L.A. (draft), [1941-1942], to Denis de ROUGEMONT| 4 pages and a half in-4 with numerous erasures and correctionsLong and
fascinating discussion on the origins of Nazism, testifying to a lively debate with Denis de Rougemont whom Saint-Exupéry had met during his exile in New York (1941-1943). The Swiss writer and philosopher had studied Nazism in his Diary of Germany (1938
).
"I answer because I value you and I don't take offense at your letter because I never take offense at anything. If anyone is unpleasant to me, I turn my back on them with simplicity. The earth is big. Since yours is not unpleasant to me, I don't want to turn my back on you. But I don't understand which surgery she responds to. If it's a question of cutting off any relationship between us, it's easier to stop seeing me. There are a lot of people I just don't see. And, unless they themselves come to me and ask for them, I never give them my reasons [...] First of all, I like you and regret very much that I have been unpleasant to you. I don't like to hurt who I like [...] I know that I am in a state of acute irritability due to insurmountable material problems, which made me go to bed after ten days without sleep, in exchange for a silly job. I can't stand the lack of sleep. I'm naturally aggressive in discussion, having a bad temper, but I totally agree that I've gone too far in my stride [...] That's for the form"... Then Saint-Exupéry gets to the bottom of their disagreement: "As far as the substance is concerned, the only sentence that could have hurt you is the following: 'you are going to tell us about your trip to Germany'. I deeply regretted the form, which was indeed snarling. I haven't regretted anything in the end. Indeed, when I spoke of Nazism and the bewildered astonishment of a youth forced to sacrifice their lives for such an unsatisfactory struggle, I said something that meant "it is too easy to give the causes of success in the mere lure of evil. We die out
L.A. (draft), [1941-1942], to Denis de ROUGEMONT| 4 pages and a half in-4 with numerous erasures and correctionsLong and
fascinating discussion on the origins of Nazism, testifying to a lively debate with Denis de Rougemont whom Saint-Exupéry had met during his exile in New York (1941-1943). The Swiss writer and philosopher had studied Nazism in his Diary of Germany (1938
).
"I answer because I value you and I don't take offense at your letter because I never take offense at anything. If anyone is unpleasant to me, I turn my back on them with simplicity. The earth is big. Since yours is not unpleasant to me, I don't want to turn my back on you. But I don't understand which surgery she responds to. If it's a question of cutting off any relationship between us, it's easier to stop seeing me. There are a lot of people I just don't see. And, unless they themselves come to me and ask for them, I never give them my reasons [...] First of all, I like you and regret very much that I have been unpleasant to you. I don't like to hurt who I like [...] I know that I am in a state of acute irritability due to insurmountable material problems, which made me go to bed after ten days without sleep, in exchange for a silly job. I can't stand the lack of sleep. I'm naturally aggressive in discussion, having a bad temper, but I totally agree that I've gone too far in my stride [...] That's for the form"... Then Saint-Exupéry gets to the bottom of their disagreement: "As far as the substance is concerned, the only sentence that could have hurt you is the following: 'you are going to tell us about your trip to Germany'. I deeply regretted the form, which was indeed snarling. I haven't regretted anything in the end. Indeed, when I spoke of Nazism and the bewildered astonishment of a youth forced to sacrifice their lives for such an unsatisfactory struggle, I said something that meant "it is too easy to give the causes of success in the mere lure of evil. We die out