ONLY HEART CAN SEE THE TRUTH

The article deals with the formation and development of the literary works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944). The writer covered a long way as an artist of a word, from a simple imitator to a great master. The narration "The Little Prince" made the writer’s name famous all over the world. In the story, the writer considers the problems of the good and evil, love and hate, friendship, life and death, etc. Having become acquainted with the content of the story, the reader involuntarily thinks about the meaning of life, about its problems and solutions. A detailed analysis in this article is subjected to the "heroic" ideal proposed by the writer, the system of values and basic ethical positions put forward, which are now deduced not from the timeless divine reality, but from the being of a mortal man. The result of the work is the reconstruction of a complete worldview picture of Saint-Exupery, which has no analogues in literature and a wide range of studied Western sources. The extreme closeness of the writer's worldview to the teachings of a number of philosophers is revealed, and a curious set of his psychological and cultural views is presented