Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry—The Tale of the Rose with Sara Kippur

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Though her high-flying literary husband took center-stage, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry was more than just the metaphorical “rose” in his novella The Little Prince. She was a writer and artist in her own right, with a gift for storytelling that’s evidenced in the now out-of-print novel Oppède. Following her death, an undiscovered memoir she wrote about her marriage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry surfaced among her belongings and was published to great acclaim in 2000 as The Tale of the Rose. Wellesley professor Sara Kippur joins us in conversation to discuss the glittering life and literary merits of this often-overlooked 20th-century figure.
Mentioned in this episode
The Tale of the Rose: The Love Story Behind The Little Prince (bookshop.org/p/books/the-tale-of-the-rose-the-…) by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
Oppède (amazon.com/OPPEDE-Antoine-Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry/d…) or Kingdom of the Rocks (amazon.com/Kingdom-Memories-Oppede-Consuelo-Ex…) by Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
New York Nouveau: How Postwar French Literature Became American (bookshop.org/p/books/new-york-nouveau-how-post…) by Sara Kippur
The Little Prince (bookshop.org/p/books/the-little-prince-antoine…) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
José Vasconcelos (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Vasconcelos)
Enrique Gomez Carrillo (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_G%C3%B3mez_Carri…)
Nelly de Vogüé (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_de_Vog%C3%BC%C3%A9)
Alain Vircondelet (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Vircondelet)
José Martines Fructuoso (petit-prince-collection.com/lang/events_detail…)
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 117 (http://v) on Zelda Fitzgerald
André Gide (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide)
André Breton (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton)
Oppède (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opp%C3%A8de)
Website with photos of Consuelo’s art
Varian Fry (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Fry)
Elsa Triolet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Triolet)
Tropisms (bookshop.org/p/books/tropisms-nathalie-sarraut…) by Nathalie Sarraute
The Sea Wall (abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=32385751…) by Marguerite Duras
The Volcano Daughters (bookshop.org/p/books/the-volcano-daughters-a-n…) by Gina Maria Balibrera

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