Abstract: The encounter with the desert offers Saint-Exupéry a chance to explore man’s various relationships with nature in a poetic way. Stranded in the Sahara, in a state of abandonment and not appropriation, the pilot, taking a geopoetical approach, feels “tied” to the earth and experiences an oceanic feeling. Immersion in the desert provides him with a sense of plenitude that results from postulating both a shared sense of belonging to the earth and an aspiration toward the infinite.
