Le Petit Prince story begins with “When I was six years old ”. These words follow a picture showing a boa constrictor winding round a wild beast. The first words of a work together with its accompanying decoration are an indicationof how the tale will unfold and also how it will probably end. Consequently, we may say that this tale is the story of a six years old child who asks himself two key questions: such intertwinements he visualizes, both marvelous and frightening,what do they mean and to what extent is he concerned with their dynamics? In short, he raises the query “Where am I coming from ?”, followed by the natural corollary “Do such drives apply to me ?”. Through the metaphor of Le Petit Prince, Saint-Exupéry makes use of his own experience. Between six and seven he suffered a serious traumatism which allowed the child he was then to understand by himself the sexuality between sheep and flowers, between men and women, that very sexuality which allows humanity to perpetuate. The universality of that issue concerning the origins of life has allowed translations of this book into all languages, without it losing an ounce of its relevance. In a way, Le Petit Prince story epresents a new writing of the Book of Genesis, but a genesis free from any reference to any religious background, in aword, a secular Genesis, thus totally universal. That “universal” Genesis is to be understood in the metonymical meaning of the word. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry unfurls literally that Genesis into the cosmos, making up a cosmogony available to all the Little Princes of the World who dare asking themselves, in their deep loneliness, what the hell these funny adults are doing together . . .
