The Little Prince Roaming Between The Text And The World

Inter-subjectivity is an important definition in western Philosophy and Aesthetics, it is also a re-expression to the experience and meaning of human survival by the modern western philosophers. Inter-subjectivity doesn't deny the subjectivity absolutely, but surmounts it, it is a harmony of subjectivity and interity.The inter-subjectivity of Little Prince is shown by the relations between little prince and me, little prince and pilot, little prince and others, that is to reach the harmony by the interaction, mutual dialogue and mutual understanding among the author, the text and the readers. In inter-subjectivity, the subject of Little Prince is coexisting with others. By this, an inter-subjective world, which fully understands and concerns the survival situation of human beings, has been built.Little Prince has achieved inter-subjectivity by its ways of narration and the creation of style. To the ways of narration, it is by the model of existence-seeking-returning. To the style, Little Prince is an adult's fairy tale, it puts up a bridge to the author and readers, and makes the communication among the subjects possible.Little Prince has deepened inter-subjectivity by the art form of metaphor. The study in the meaning of metaphor is the readers'deeper excavation to the text. The little prince in Little Prince not only reveals the nature and loneness in real world, but also hints the seeking and returning of human beings. The death of the little prince, on one hand, expresses the objectivity of him, but on the other hand, it shows the subjectivity. During the understanding of the text, the existence of inter-subjectivity is the necessary condition of the reality of inter-metaphoricity, and the reality of inter-metaphoricity is the home of the existence of inter-subjectivity.Little Prince, as a classic work, is still brilliant and full of charm after the history's screening and washing. Why? Through Little Prince, the readers see a puzzled Saint-Exupéry stand on the ruin of religion and war, and be filled with loneliness and at a loss for being abandoned by the God and times. He, along with the little prince, even the readers needs to communicate, talk and return, and inter-subjectivity is just the gold key to the door of communication and returning. So it is necessary to find out the inter-subjective semantic field constructed by the author, and that is the value and meaning of the article.