The drawings

The drawings are an important feature of the novella The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . They can be found in almost every one of the 27 chapters. All the characters in the work are illustrated with the help of a drawing; only the narrator himself does not have a drawing. The drawings replace the descriptions of the characters. Numerous drawings of the little prince can be found, through which the reader is able to recognize him.

The drawing of the little prince already played a decisive role in the genesis of the work. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had a habit of drawing fantasy figures on a tablecloth or on letters. At dinner with his publisher, Curtice Hitchcock, and his wife, he also drew something on the tablecloth and he is said to have then been asked what the drawn meant. 

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