La critique de l’ironie, caractéristique de l’antimoderne ? Antoine de Saint Exupéry et l’ironie des « cancres »
The critique of irony, characteristic of anti-modernism? Antoine de Saint Exupéry and the irony of the « dunces »

Summary/Abstract: This article examines Antoine de Saint Exupéry's anti-modern, anti-ironic positions, whose writings castigate the irony of a suspiciousattitude towards customs, ceremonial and, more generally, tradition.It proposes to identify the targets of Exupéry's criticism, these« dunces » or these « ink spitters » – Camus, Sartre, the surrealists– and to measure how this ideological tension participates in SaintExupéry's anti-modernism (based on the work of Antoine Compagnon).

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