Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a writer who has become a “golden classic” of French and world literature, the author of “The Little Prince,” familiar to many since childhood, the creator of the best of the best novels about the war and its voluntary and involuntary heroes and victims. A writer whose books have the amazing ability to remain modern in any era and attract the attention of readers of any age. “The Citadel” is the most original and, perhaps, the most brilliant work of Exupery. A book in which the facets of this writer’s talent sparkled in a new way. A book in which motifs of reasons and military prose, memoirs and literary legends, reflections on the meaning of life and the spiritual quest of the great Frenchman are intricately intertwined.