Воспоминание о невозвратном, или попытка взрослого осмысления мира детства
Memories of the transient, or an adult’s attempt to assess the world of childhood

Summary/Abstract: The research object is the world of childhood represented in a philosophical parable “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The autobiographical nature of the work and the crystal of childhood, retained through the whole life, helped the French aviator to perfectly capture the child’s life in dynamics, reveal the wide range of problems and feelings and emotions connected with them. The world of childhood typically has its own attitude to the events, which is based on immediatism, intuitivism, dreaminess, alogism and wish to understand. In the world of childhood, there is no exact knowledge and there are no calculations, probably that’s why there is place for fantastic and unusual things. A child, despite his small life experience and little knowledge, is able to feel the complexity and inconsistency of metaphysical symbols. Adult’s reference to the world of childhood as a sort of retrospection helps bring back balance and harmony, value life and treat it morally.

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