The Traveler and the Foreign: Intertextuality in the works to Lettre to un Otago and Le Petit Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

• Grant number: 11/00477-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Daniela Mantarro Callipo
• Grantee: Natalia Araujo de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This Project intents to confront the Saint-Exupéry´s Lettres à un Otage and Le Petit Prince, in order to Analize the presence of common subjects in the both books, as the friendship, the nature, the trip, the exile and the loneliness. To do that we aim to Analize a process of the intertextual Relation between the two author romances, showing that the Le Petit Prince Incorporated elements from Lettres à un Otage, what can to unveil the importance that elements had to Saint-Exupéry.